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Unread 09-06-2006, 00:42
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Re: SkyCar
During the build season, everyone on my team was hot to build a robot that could do everything. A robot that could be defensive, could pick up massive amounts of balls, could score with the camera, could score 1pt & 3pt balls.

We felt it was important to be diverse and to be able to accomplish all the tasks.

I think Moller feels much the same way.

He wanted to build a car that could fly.

But in building a car that could fly he was forced to sacrifice the design aspects that make for a successful car. And in building an airplane that could drive he was forced to sacrifice the design aspects that make an airplane successful.

In the end Moller ended up with a vehicle that wasn't much good as an airplane and wasn't much good as a car.

Unfortunately, this was also true for our robot. It wasn't that great at shooting 3pt. or 1pt. balls.

I think there is a great lesson to be learned here.
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