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Monster Garage's Robotic R/C Car Challenge
KMan writes "According to Roboteq Discover Channel's Monster Garage will be airing an epsisode where the challenge will be to build an R/C controlled car (full sized/real deal). 'Details' on how to build your own R/C car can be found at Roboteq along with airing time info for the Monster Garage episode."
I really don't see the point in this. I guess it's an ok novelty thing, but who else than James Bond has use for a R/C car?
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
had this as their finale in their show a couple of years ago
I'm sure "real" race fans would never go for this, but NASCAR has gotten lamer and lamer as the number of safety restrictions have gone up; the only "real" racing is on short tracks anymore, and those are rapidly in decline as NASCAR moves races out of the hills into big, fast, new superspeedway style tracks.
The cars are so hobbled by aerodynamics rules and sometimes even restrictor plates that you don't get racing, you get single-file drafting and a ton of pit strategy, and neither is exciting racing. Competitive pits can be exciting, but pit strategy isn't per se, and neither is a long line of cars going round in circles.
Having the drivers race their cars via advanced simulators would eliminate the need for many of the safety enhancements; the owners would drive crash prevention via economics, not "concern for drivers" since no drivers would ever get hurt. Drivers could drive much more aggressively and the cars could be given much more competitive power bands.
It's not "real" racing, but from a distance does it matter if there's a person in the car or not?