Design Critique

General Chat Suggestions
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From what I read, we will not be able to test drive the car we design, at least not at first anyway. So, as an alternative to being able to test drive the car, how about a technical critique?

Since the dynamics of car design is understood quite well today, it would seem to be something that could be done.

What I envision is something like this:

After the car is totally done, the design is submitted to a “test driver”.
This “test driver” then “drives” the car on the companies’ “test track”.

The “test driver” reports back on the car’s handling and performance.

Of course you don’t have to show the test drive or the track, all I’m looking for is the report.

The report would cover handling in G’s, braking power and stopping distance from different speeds, acceleration power in quater mile times and terminal speed , top speed, and noise levels ib dbls.

Virtually all of these numbers can be derived mathmatically from the componebts that are used in the design.

Also, for us Americians, can we have the choice to see these specs in MPH and Feet instead of klm and meters?

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if you look at the videos you will see that you already get specs for handling and braking although handling and sportyness isn’t something you can translate to the real world but they are already there.
And of course you can change between unit you can even pick and choose so you can have Nm with MPH, and if you had searched for a few seconds you would know that :wink:

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There is a test feature when you finish a design, but as of now its just basically a list of specifications… I know there has been talk of something similar to what your suggesting though.

And yes, theres every combination of Units you can imaging… if you want torque in NM, and power in HP, you can do it… or ft-lbs and KW… Etc.