How is it technically correct to say that a car making a u-turn can have a constant speed but cannot have a constant velocity?

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During the "U" part of the turn, the car would follow an approximately circular path, and if it's moving at a constant speed, it would have to accelerate toward the center of the circle in order to change its direction.

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