Ode to the Racecar: Improvements in Vehicular Safety Are Inspired by Racing
Ode to the Racecar: Improvements in Vehicular Safety Are Inspired by RacingAuthor: Mike Trudel, Freelance WriterRacing has long been inspirational in the development of vehicular safety systems. With Top Fuel dragsters plummeting down tracks at speeds in excess of 330 mph in a quarter mile run, serious safety elements are essential. Gleaning the benefits that years of research and crash testing provide, these top-notch safety features, then, make it into the passenger and commercial vehicle markets.
But it's not just padding and good brakes that ensure most racers survive potentially fatal accidents. It's also electronics and ingenious automotive engineering. It's research, learning from every experience to maximize performance, and continually going back to the drawing board. Wireless warning systems, for instance, alert drivers to a caution condition on the racetrack by transmitting a message from race control to a wall-mounted receiver or light. Designed to supplement a track's existing caution system, wireless warning systems allow racers to add additional caution lights at key locations throughout the track, such as at the turn and pit entrances, and near spotters. If the system is rugged and portable enough, it can be set up at different tracks for every race - providing coded messages for security, rapidly changing transmission and receiving frequencies to decrease the possibility of interference from other radios, and acting as a backup in case of power loss at the track.
While placing caution lights along the typical highway isn't realistic, wireless warning systems use concepts similar to lane departure warning systems and side alert systems now used in some passenger and commercial vehicles.
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