Autonomous Frankenstein Roboracer from family and friends at CRD
You don’t need to be a rich company to enter, right?
Here, have happy car.
One
You happen to work for Canadian Racing Development in Canada. (You’re a Canadian, and you live in Canada, working for a Canadian company that specializes in Racing Development, called Canadian Racing Development.) You and some friends from work are tasked with making a CRD Roboracer. How? Well…
What happens when you and your friends take your sister’s happy little Volato Cara, turn it into a fiberglass shell, work on some active aero, and stick the batteries of two Geo Bolts from your father’s dealership, and four ROTOM Canada T51038 motors from work into it?
Two
So, you have to have some sort of brain in there. Turns out your other buddies work at the Mercedes bus dealership and repair those bus computers for a living. Take one of those, train it, and stick it in the trunk of your new Frankenstein electric go-kart, have them talk some sensors from the top shelf through some magic and boom.
Three
You end up with a Volato Cara shell and aluminum frame carrying two 60kW battery packs from two Geo Bolts, a motor at each corner from ROTOM Canadian Motor, the modified and trained brains of an autonomous Mercedes bus, front, front corner, and rear stereoscopic camera setups, various reverse parking sensors as distance sensors at each corner and the sides, front and rear LiDAR, and some sort of radar system somewhere…
Four
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Two General Motors 60kW SolidState battery packs, dual chargers
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Four ROTOM Canada T51038 compact motors
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Trained and modified Daimler/Mercedes-Benz Autonomous Bus controller for racing and decisionmaking attached to multiple sensors
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The body of a 2049 Volato Cara convertible turned fiberglass and put on a custom aluminum frame, with a modified rear subframe from a VOLARO Verlyn featuring custom pushrods
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Active aerodynamic system featuring a front flap, rear adjustable wing, and adjustable diffuser, running off of a controller attached to the main Mercedes computer.
Final
this is what happens when you work at canadian racing development