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Re: Newbie has an idea - Nascar style racing?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 20:48:45 GMT
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Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@AIRMAIL.avoidspamNET>
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Jeff Wood wrote:
> One idea that I always wanted to persue was autonomus car racing, nascar
> style.
> What do you think?
If this is a race (as opposed to a set of solo time trials) then I
think you need some way for cars to avoid each other.
Maybe requiring each car to have a 'tail light' at a specified height
so that a forward facing light sensor could detect if you are about
to rear-end the car in front?
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| (...) Good idea! I was thinking more in terms of bumpers but taillights and forward pointing light sensors is much better. That would allow a robot coming from behind to setup a pass without hitting the robot in front. Perhaps the sensor input used (...) (21 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Newbie has an idea - Nascar style racing?
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| One idea that I always wanted to persue was autonomus car racing, nascar style. I thought of setting up a small oval on a 4x8 sheet of plywood and marking the entrance to the corners in one shade, inside boundries(3' from the wall) in a second shade (...) (21 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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