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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
We were the first team to present a car from our university...on the one hand I was supremely jealous of other universities who had pedigree, history, and many previous designs to refine--on the other hand I think coming up with the entire car from scratch based on nothing but theory is probably a wholly different challenge, and I do not regret our undertaking.
Plus I got to engineer a really cool differential  |
Yea, I am very glad to have the experience of previous teams and cars. We were out with last year's car to figure out what to do better. Without that, it would be very, very hard to come up with the design for a car from nothing more than textbook knowledge.
Despite last year's success, the Cal Poly Baja project still has a lot of room to improve. I can only imagine what it was like when they first started.