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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo
Although I agree that the rovers are a fansastic achievement, give me their budget and I will happily assembly you a car that will function for 900 days, or even triple that. You do need to limit speed to a few MPH, distance per day to a few dozens of meters, no moving traffic nearer than a hemisphere.... I'll even throw in the low telperature and solar-powered package, no extra charge !
The point is, everything is a compromise. For a million dollars, we can build a very reliable Ford Fiesta - but would you buy it? What if we sold a car for $800 - but it always needed repairs frequently (like, once a mile or more) - would you buy that? Between those two extremes lies "what the market accepts" - which is (hopefully) close to what you've built.
This is the basic essence of Engineering: Getting more for less.
Don
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"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Don Rotolo again." Drat!
But to get back to the topic, the software seems interesting. I always enjoy reading how groups take their past learning experiences, both good and bad, and use them to develop new applications.