MouseTrap Vehicle Distance and Race... Blog.

Our vehicle performed quite consistently (unfortunately it was consistently inadequate). It traveled only an average of about 8 meters which is short of the 10 meters it was supposed to go. Also during the distance measurement it veered off to the right as was mentioned in a previous "blog". This was fine however because either way we wouldn't have made the ideal distance.
 Our vehicle was also quite slow and lost miserably in the drag-race competition to a much smaller vehicle that could barley go 4 meters, but as one could imagine made up for that in speed.  

Video of the the distance trial. (taken by Agnessa)

If we were to redesign our vehicle one thing to be done is fix the veering to the right problem. One of the front wheels was bigger than the other. We could have filed down that one or added on the the other or something. Also, to my surprise bigger vehicles seemed to go farther than smaller lighter ones like our own. Perhaps we should have made ours heavier and/or longer. In the end at least we can take solace in the fact that our car was consistent and it wasn't the worst one.

The team. Taken by Josh.