Re:How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Qu...
by fnimick on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:57AM
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Relevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/
Re:How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Qu...
by smm11 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:10AM
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Not at all related, but I watched the various motorcycle jumps of the Caesars Palace fountains the other day.
Watching Travis Pastrana jump the fountains on a fairly heavy Indian flat track bike, with modern ramps designed with computer input, and planning rather than seat-of-the-pants go-for-it-ness made it okay, but hardly death-defying. I see guys jump motorcycles furthers on the dunes in Southern California. When EK did it, it was terrifying.
Just like F1 was, once upon a time. Now F1 is scary because speeds are up against human reaction. It's inevitable the cars either have to slow down, or the driver needs to be on controls not in the car, making this ground-based drones.
There are all kinds of restrictions added to race cars of almost any series, some for commercial reasons (promoting the original vehicle in rallying and touring cars for example), some for financial (generally to keep the price of entry reasonable) and sometimes for safety.