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At first glance I thought this rolling road made by Haas Automation and Jacobs Engineering was a picture of a toy car on an inverted belt sander.
“The one-millimeter thick continuous steel belt will roll at over 180mph, and features sensors under the bed that can take readings at each wheel. At top speed the wind tunnel fan will circulate 2.85 million cubic feet of air per minute! The facility will be available for rental to motorsports teams and manufacturers when it opens later this year. And yes, that’s a genuine actual-size race car up on the rollers.”
Via: OhGizmo and Jalopnik
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April 18th, 2007
This is very reminiscent of the systems described in “The Roads Must Roll!” (1940) by Robert Heinlein.
April 18th, 2007
Thats insanely awesome, looks like they fixed the little problem of cars in wind tunnels
April 18th, 2007
Hey RSMilward,
I had never heard of that book before, sometimes it just takes some time for the technology to catch up to crazy ideas.
Just imagine if that steel belt ever broke. That guy would be sliced in half.
April 18th, 2007
Why?
April 18th, 2007
Haha this is massive, i also thought it was a toy car at first
April 18th, 2007
All I can say is about damn time… Oh and I bet NASCAR is going ape s*** over it. Soon they’ll by Budweiser, Florida and Sony. It’ll be the first economy based on ovals.
April 18th, 2007
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April 19th, 2007
I’m with mr mario, I thought it was a model or something at first.
April 20th, 2007
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April 21st, 2007
I always thought engineers were cocky. As if they couldn’t move the desk just a little farther from the death machine.
May 13th, 2007
Clark: because it’s a steel belt 1mm thick, which is effectively a blade at high speed. And steel does eventually fail from stress when repeatedly flexed.
No one should ever stand in front of this thing.
Notice no one is in the vehicle and it’s strapped down.
August 23rd, 2007
Metal fatrigue
May 4th, 2008
i want member this sit