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	<title>Comments on: Treadmill for Your Car</title>
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		<title>By: Terry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I call BS! Totally PS&#039;d. Who would create a work area like that?! No safety gear? In a &quot;lab!?&quot; No way. If it is real, I&#039;d set up a video camera to catch the look on that guy&#039;s face when that car reaches 180 mph then launches out the opposite wall.

It looks like something Ricky Bobby dreamed up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I call BS! Totally PS'd. Who would create a work area like that?! No safety gear? In a "lab!?" No way. If it is real, I'd set up a video camera to catch the look on that guy's face when that car reaches 180 mph then launches out the opposite wall.</p>
<p>It looks like something Ricky Bobby dreamed up.</p>
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		<title>By: Sid Morrison</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sid Morrison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As an engineer who frequently works around cars on chassis dynos, I echo Ali&#039;s sentiments.  The whole &quot;makeshift&quot; nature of the operator&#039;s &quot;control room&quot; looks pretty scary.  

Also, I&#039;d have to see more details, but the wide-open nature of the setup makes it difficult to perform effective fire-suppression in the event something &quot;bad happens&quot;.  It&#039;s interesting, but it looks to be in the &quot;in progress&quot; stage, rather than a fully developed cell ready for testing.  

Finally: it&#039;s too bad they don&#039;t show the massive air handling at the front of the setup.  To be honest, though, I wonder if this is an under-build picture rather than the final setup ready to perform testing.  Normally, to move that quantity of air, you need to have a (large) closed chamber around the vehicle under test so that the air which passes the vehicle can be reducted back into the air handling inlet.  The fact this is shown completely open &amp; up in the air leads me to believe a drive-in room will probably be built around it -- that&#039;s how wind tunnels and other environmental chassis dynos are done in the industry.  The operator dude would then be safely &quot;removed from the action&quot; behind some very heavy glass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an engineer who frequently works around cars on chassis dynos, I echo Ali's sentiments.  The whole "makeshift" nature of the operator's "control room" looks pretty scary.  </p>
<p>Also, I'd have to see more details, but the wide-open nature of the setup makes it difficult to perform effective fire-suppression in the event something "bad happens".  It's interesting, but it looks to be in the "in progress" stage, rather than a fully developed cell ready for testing.  </p>
<p>Finally: it's too bad they don't show the massive air handling at the front of the setup.  To be honest, though, I wonder if this is an under-build picture rather than the final setup ready to perform testing.  Normally, to move that quantity of air, you need to have a (large) closed chamber around the vehicle under test so that the air which passes the vehicle can be reducted back into the air handling inlet.  The fact this is shown completely open &amp; up in the air leads me to believe a drive-in room will probably be built around it -- that's how wind tunnels and other environmental chassis dynos are done in the industry.  The operator dude would then be safely "removed from the action" behind some very heavy glass.</p>
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		<title>By: Ali S.</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/01/treadmill-for-your-car/comment-page-1/#comment-170484</link>
		<dc:creator>Ali S.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope the guy is wearing ear protection.</description>
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		<title>By: Patrick M</title>
		<link>http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/01/treadmill-for-your-car/comment-page-1/#comment-170399</link>
		<dc:creator>Patrick M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The question is, &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348452&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;will the car take off&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The question is, <a href="http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348452" rel="nofollow">will the car take off</a>?</p>
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		<title>By: A.Non.E.Mous</title>
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		<dc:creator>A.Non.E.Mous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that looks unnecessarily dangerous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that looks unnecessarily dangerous.</p>
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		<title>By: Will</title>
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		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Definitely NOT the *first* - Formula One teams have been using these for years.  Just another thing F1 does better than NASCAR.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Definitely NOT the *first* - Formula One teams have been using these for years.  Just another thing F1 does better than NASCAR.</p>
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		<title>By: Nora</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think I&#039;d have serious anxiety problems if I had his job.
*track is going to stop, car is going to kill me*
*track is going to stop, car is going to kill me*
*repeat for 8 hours*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I'd have serious anxiety problems if I had his job.<br />
*track is going to stop, car is going to kill me*<br />
*track is going to stop, car is going to kill me*<br />
*repeat for 8 hours*</p>
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