avdmerwe

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by avdmerwe 6y ago
Ha that would be hilarious, but is unfortunately not true :) There is a very good replica of the previous gen car in the Netherlands. I wouldn't enjoy driving it daily due to the noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV
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by avdmerwe 6y ago
Of course, happy to chat. If you put my username in front of @signal.bio, you can email me
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by avdmerwe 6y ago
AFAIK the regs state that the signal for 'green' needs to have a human input, the wheel guns now mostly (video is from 2017) have torque sensors which inform a 'green' state when the human lets go of their switch. Each t
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by avdmerwe 6y ago
This is triggered by sensors on wheel guns and the front jack. From the driver's perspective, this could even be sooner, as it'll take a while (~200ms) to react to the green light.
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by avdmerwe 6y ago
A lot of this is driven by the technical regulations, in order to keep some parity between teams with varying budgets. Most, if not all teams have as much software automation on the pitstop equipment (you can see the front jack release trig
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by avdmerwe 6y ago
The nut is part of the wheel assembly. They have a fairly complex retaining system on each wheel hub, in case of a cross-threaded nut and unsafe car release.
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
Interesting to read this. It sounds like the opposite approach a rescue crew would take in a motorsport environment, in most cases. I guess F1 is a much more controlled environment, due to car and circuit design working together as a safety
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
Although I've spent the majority of my professional life driving around in circles, I have always been interested in technology, and worked in IT before I started racing professionally. Learning about materials, electronics, and manufa
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
Exactly this. And I'd add that because we are now looking for tiny incremental improvements (most of the big, obvious things have been addressed already), we're going to need some data in the areas we're looking to improve.
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
Personally, I think it's really cool that anyone would post this on HN or even have questions about it!
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
Thanks! Strange to be posting, as I've been reading HN for years. As with most things, this turned out to be more complex than we initially thought. The regulations in F1 meant that there were no off-the-shelf options for sensors. That
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
This will indeed not slow down anyone's initial response, but it will hopefully give us an insight into what happened before anyone gets there, or while the rescue evolves. We would have really liked to know what happened while we were
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
Reading some of the press that this has had, it's unfortunate that some things have had a bit too much PR treatment. I'd also tend to disagree with 'immediately'. We definitely don't expect this to be a silver bulle
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by avdmerwe 9y ago
This is meant to serve as an extra data point during the decision-making process when we first get to a driver, especially when we don't have immediate access to them. As other posters have pointed out, we try to minimise additional ri