“Lead to Solarcar. Dropbears ahead.”
We're currently half way between Melbourne and Adelaide. NHS, who is currently driving, describes the scenery as "Like Nevada only with plants. Exactly like Age of Empires." It's been exactly the same for almost 500km so he has plenty of evidence to support this conclusion. Marvin! and Matt are on the look out for trebuchets.
In an enormous boost to our confidence, we have discovered that the truck we hired to carry the solarcar is slower than the solarcar itself. Significantly. It tops out at 90... kph. Based on our calculations, this is not quick enough to evade an average dropbear attack. More importantly, it's not going to be able to keep up with the solarcar during the race, so we may have to make some... modifications.
DC and solarcar, working as one
The biggest problem we faced during the 1 hour test drive was the extreme inaccuracy of our weather prediction systems
"There's no rain anywhere between here and Adelaide"
Here's another photo of the Australian countryside. If you look closely, you might be able to spot the solarcar in the foreground.
I carefully managed to avoid shooting the rain clouds
October 16th, 2009 - 01:19
Did the authorities return the towed Van.?
October 16th, 2009 - 02:15
Hey team – I see no windshield wipers. DC must have an unerring sense of direction to stay so nicely in the middle of the road. Let’s hope there truly is no rain during the race. What’s on the playlist to get you through 500 km of Nevadan dropbear territory? Best of luck; God bless you – Aunt Harlan
October 16th, 2009 - 05:05
You’re driving on the wrong side of the road!!!!
October 16th, 2009 - 06:00
get yourself some real seamtape!!
October 16th, 2009 - 16:07
@Aunt Harlan: I was a bit worried about visibility when it started raining, too! Fortunately, the water seems to bead up and roll off our windshield pretty quickly. I could still see, just not quite 20/20…
@Grandma JZ: Yes, we got the van back. It took about and hour and pretty hefty wad of Australian currency, but luckily we got it back on the road and made it to Adelaide by that night.