Dave Lavery in the news!

[Madison]

Originally posted by dlavery
I haven't seen the detail of the Test Track software system, so I can't really comment on it beyond some educated guesses. But you might be surprised at the complexity of the Mission: Space set up. Without giving away all the details, I can say that the ride pods are doing a lot more that just spinning around in a circle!

-dave

Most of Test Track's problems stemmed from 'block violations.' That is, the computers had trouble maintaining the proper separation between the cars to ensure that ride could operate safely. This was a unique problem to Test Track because of the nature of the attraction. There are 27 cars cycling through, but at any given time, some of them are stopped and others are traveling at 65 mph and still others are doing something in between.

Mission: Space's pods, on the other, need only spin around in a big giant circle or otherwise rotate on, to my knowledge, a single other axis. It may be two axes, though. It's not easy, I'm sure, but it does seem less complex than Test Track.