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Re: Stupid Question about Static Electricity

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Originally Posted by fox46
Walmart/Canadian Tire carries a product for that purpose: It's a strip that you bolt to the underside of your car, and when the car is stopped, it flops down and touches the road, thus grounding the car, and discharging the electricity. When the car speeds up, the wind blows it up off the pavement so it doesn't get worn. They'll run you about $4.
We were thinking of doing this for our robot last year. Every time the drive team went to pick up the robot after a match...

"You do it first."
"No, you do it first!"
"I did it last time.."
"But...oh man, I'm not going to win this, am I?"
"Nope."
*zap*
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