[ExI] [Bulk] Robot car racing!

[spike]

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> ] On Behalf Of BillK
Subject: [Bulk] [ExI] Robot car racing!

Formula E and Kinetik today announced a partnership with the intention to launch a global race series for driverless electric cars…
<http://fiaformulae.com/en/news/2015/november/formula-e-kinetik-announce-roborace-a-global-driverless-championship.aspx>...
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BillK

 

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Subject: Re: [ExI] [Bulk] Robot car racing!

 

And what's to keep some yahoo from turning this into demolition derby?

bill w

 

 

 

 

 

Right on BillW!  

 

Consider the possibilities.  There are pleeeeenty of wrecked cars owned by the insurance company.  Wife finds out about her, parks Mister Ford’s creation atop Mister Farrari’s handiwork: 

 

 



 

Cost of repairing one of these babies is crazy high (the car I mean (don’t even bother trying to repair the marriage)) assuming you can find Mario and Luigi to work on it.  So you get the insurance company to dig the thing out, pay them a couple k for the remains, couple weeks later, you have this:

 



 

You have started out with a light fast wrecked car, gotten rid of nearly half the weight.  Your steering actuators, brake actuators and sensors wouldn’t weigh all that much.  You would introduce a bunch of handling quirkiness from the odd weight distribution, but you might be able to rig the software to experiment with cornering strategies.  The side loads on tires are mostly up front, and you still have weight up there with that marvelous Italian V8 (oh my, those clever wops do know how to build sexy racing engines.)  The rear wheels would break loose easily, but you might be able to give away some straight line acceleration in return for lower frontal area, harder stopping characteristics and so on, or perhaps rig an airfoil to push down on the back end.

 

That would be just plain Cool McGool would it not?  Cheap fast fun.

 

spike

 

 

 

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