Dave;
I guess we could still ride along to feed the monkey........
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Dahlgren [mailto:ddahlgren@snet.net]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:55 AM
To: John Goodman
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: How to deal with it all?
The cost of high bandwidth telemetry is coming down.. Just think about it
for a minute. 30% of the car is dedicated to keeping the driver safe. The
driver is generally the most problematic part of the car. They are generally
the largest part of the car in special construction. You have to make a
bunch of aero concessions for 'visibility and comfort' whatever that is.
They do make airplanes that don't need pilots... With a few servo motors a
good GPS and inertial navigation why do you need one? The data acq stuff i
work with can do track mapping within inches and has the technology to
potentially run servos. The only thing left that one might say the driver is
good for might be to avoid rough sections of the track, but i say that is
what forward looking radar is for.. I am sure there is technology out that
can detect surface problems on the track in time to correct for them.. I
don't ever remember seeing a rule that the car has to have a driver. I would
expect a well trained chimp could drive an LSR car.
Here is a typical run
Apply pedal on right
when light comes on move this lever..(shift)
at last maker shut off engine and pull chute
when humans come close to the car jabber incessantly and wave arms with big
toothy grin.. see what driver.. LOL.. Dave
John Goodman wrote:
>
> "Does it still have a driver Dave ? LOL"
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