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A much much better video with a lot more details, accidents, back story, etc.... but it is covered with Red Bull logos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=291&v=JinhIHIF8E...

Red Bull consistently does some of the best advanced extreme sports out there. Awesome to have a company like that backing up their ethos and I'm happy to look at their logo because of the basic fact of how cool the stuff they're doing is.

This is content marketing done right.

The craziest thing is they have two F1 teams.

The only downside is that they are effective at promoting a beverage that is likely to have a negative impact on the health of the consumers who partake.

Not liking the product is different than not appreciating the quality of the marketing.

Interesting, for now control seems to be extremely raw but I wonder how much an active exoskeleton could help in making this more approachable, both in terms of not needing as much muscle (both strength and endurance) as well as guiding the pilot into more stability.

the arm strength that appears necessary seems high, I would hope there is some sort of exo to assist with that or perhaps logic in the motors to shut down if they get into an odd angle

Seems like good motivation to go to the gym. You would be suprised how difficult a normal race car is to drive, most people lack the strength just to pull out of a parkinh spot in one. The exo, is the racecar case, is taken out for an important reason; weight. Pretty critical here. That said, I have no doubts a hydro assist system could be built light enough, but is unnessarry in the first few iterations.

I race a car without power steering. It is not that hard once the car starts moving.

I actually kind of like that it requires raw strength.

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