Radiocontrolled car falls in frozen in river. RCTowtruck drives onto river for rescue

[Lifted]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0DpURNDvX0

That's one impressive rescue.

 

[Ichinisan]

Is the driver following behind?

[edit]
At the start, I mean. I don't see how you can get decent range / latency trying to drive by video feed alone.

 

[Puppies04]

That is cool as hell, I need one.

 

[Puppies04]

Is the driver following behind?

I presume he is driving from a live video link. no way he is following that.

 

[manimal]

Pretty cool. Could be mars. We should already be on mars with RC cars. Could totally make it a commercial venture. Mars RC expeditions. You buy your RC car and equipment and pay for the payload. Crowdsource the exploration of mars!

 

[BoomerD]

Pretty cool. Could be mars. We should already be on mars with RC cars. Could totally make it a commercial venture. Mars RC expeditions. You buy your RC car and equipment and pay for the payload. Crowdsource the exploration of mars!

Where you gonna plug it in to recharge the batteries?







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[skyking]

Where you gonna plug it in to recharge the batteries?







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If you don't bounce the landing and end up next to a rock wall, you could use your solar panels.

 

[eldorado99]

Pretty cool. Could be mars. We should already be on mars with RC cars. Could totally make it a commercial venture. Mars RC expeditions. You buy your RC car and equipment and pay for the payload. Crowdsource the exploration of mars!

that's essentially what the Mars rovers are already doing, problem is it takes forever for the signal indicating the rovers to move to actually get there, and then another period of time before the rover's signal to get back to Earth indicating that it has moved.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Yeah, how do you get that kind of wifi range?

 

[Ns1]

What the fuck kind of setups do these guys have holy shit. I cannot believe I watched 7 minutes of that.

 

[Puppies04]

Yeah, how do you get that kind of wifi range?

Not sure how far he actually went. MAybe 300 yards down the road and then turned almost back on himself and about the same back again.

Very interested in the setup though, I want one!!

 

[twofastxtreme]

That was pretty cool.

 

[Tweak155]

That WAS pretty cool.

 

[halik]

ha so awesome

 

[PottedMeat]

awesome. those ebay servo arms are twitchy but useful for something

that's essentially what the Mars rovers are already doing, problem is it takes forever for the signal indicating the rovers to move to actually get there, and then another period of time before the rover's signal to get back to Earth indicating that it has moved.

they should drive the curiosity rover over to the beagle site and have it unfold the panels - maybe the batteries are still usable.

 

[Ns1]

the dude that runs that youtube channel is on this forum

http://www.rcgroups.com/fpv-talk-469/?

whole lotta crazy setups on there.

 

[Jeff7]

Pretty cool. Could be mars. We should already be on mars with RC cars. Could totally make it a commercial venture. Mars RC expeditions. You buy your RC car and equipment and pay for the payload. Crowdsource the exploration of mars!

that's essentially what the Mars rovers are already doing, problem is it takes forever for the signal indicating the rovers to move to actually get there, and then another period of time before the rover's signal to get back to Earth indicating that it has moved.

The rovers do at least have a decent bit of driving intelligence built in.

"Go to this location. Don't run into anything on your way, and stop if you see any interesting science targets."

 

[eldorado99]

The rovers do at least have a decent bit of driving intelligence built in.

"Go to this location. Don't run into anything on your way, and stop if you see any interesting science targets."

yeah but it probably gets distracted when it sees a hot sexy female robot rover along the way and forgets what it was doing

 

[Fritzo]

After watching that, I have determined that I am not investing in the correct types of toys.

 

[Micrornd]

I really like the compass on the dash of the towtruck.
Works, so I guess he can navigate with it too!

 

[Krazy4Real]

Wow... that was pretty cool!

 

[mmntech]

Definitely cool. I really didn't do much with my trucks this summer, and it's too damn cold to take them out now. My Savage needs a new engine anyway. The stock one has given me nothing but trouble.

Another great RC channel on YouTube is RC Adventures. His latest project is restoring a 1/5 scale front end loader, which he says weighs 500lbs and has real hydraulics.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxcjVHL-2o3D6Q9esu05a1Q

 

[Jeff7]

yeah but it probably gets distracted when it sees a hot sexy female robot rover along the way and forgets what it was doing

Good, hopefully we'll get a litter of little ones, and then maybe send Spirit a tow truck and maintenance bot, and some new wheels for the Mars Science Lab.


(0.050" aluminum for the contact surfaces of the wheels for something that's driving over rocky terrain?!? 0.050" aluminum sheet is used on a lot of products at work, but they're very lightweight products. It's also used because it's easy to puncture to permit conduit hookup and mounting during installation.)

 

[dighn]

very cool. video gave me crazy motion sickness though... ugh

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Totally awesome.