NASCAR (pit crew): First fully-automated robotic NASCAR pit crew that can change two or four...

...tires on a car, refuel the car, wipe the car’s windshield, and offer the car’s driver something to drink.

Future Challenges: During an official NASCAR race, the first four-tire pit stop (plus refuel, windshield wipe, and drink offering) completed in under:

1) 2 minutes.

2) 1 minute.

3) 30 seconds.

4) 16 seconds (upper end of what a human pit crew can normally do)

5) 12 seconds (lower end of what a human pit crew can normally do)

6) 6 seconds

7) 4 seconds (pit crew record set by Bobby Unser’s pit crew in 1976 at Indy 500)

8) 3 seconds (would set a new pit crew record)

First fully-automated robotic pit crew able to do a pit "run" at:

9) 25 mph.  [A "pit run" is where the car enters the pit area but doesn't stop.  Instead, the robotic pit crew lifts the car off the ground and performs what they would normally do in a pit stop while moving the car along the pit area track.  The machine is able to complete the entire process before it reaches the end of the pit area track whereupon it releases the car and it exits the pit area and re-enters the race.  This and the following pit run and pit boost future challenges are about the speed at which the machine can move the car through the pit area, complete an entire pit change (four tires, gas, windshield wipe, and even offering the driver a drink), and release the car before it reaches the end of the pit area track.]

10) 50 mph.

11) 100 mph.

12) Entry speed.  [The maximum speed at which the race car is able to achieve before being lifted up by the machine.  Some race tracks might limit the machine to this as the maximum speed at which it can move the car through the pit area and release it.]

First fully-automated robotic pit crew able to do a pit "boost" at:

13) 200 mph.  [A "pit boost" is the pit machine expelling the race car from the pit area at a faster speed than it entered.  As the following pit boost future challenges accelerate a race car faster than its engine can propel it, drivers will likely shift their cars into neutral and only engage their engines again when their car slows down around the track to where its engine can start helping to propel it.  To win any "pit boost" future challenge, the car cannot crash, go out of control, or touch the restraining wall before its engine has fully taken over the propulsion of the vehicle AND do so successfully 100 times in a row.]

14) 250 mph.

15) 300 mph.

16) 350 mph.

17) 400 mph.

18) 450 mph.

19) 500 mph.

First fully-automated robotic pit crew allowed to be a pit crew at:

20) A NASCAR race.

21) All NASCAR races.

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