Pretty short post today, as I didn't work that long. As I said earlier, Eli is gone today and tomorrow on college visits, so I spent my day doing a couple hours of research. Eli told me he was on the plane planning out our presentation, so I went ahead and started looking more into efficiency testing. I began to map out the best places for us to do our testing, as well as what tests we would do. Some of the basic tests we want to make sure we perform are speed, fuel efficiency, and maneuverability. We want to show that our bikes are a better solution to cars in the City of Atlanta. To track speed, we plan to possibly use the Lovett track, as this is the flattest place we can think of. We will time how long it takes for each bike to cover a certain distance, and determine how many miles the bike will travel per hour. We also want to look at how long each of our bikes can last. Can they only take someone to work then die? Or can they last a whole week without charging/filling up? Also, we want to look into the actual prices of "filling up". How much are we paying to fill/charge our fuel tanks in each bike? Is there any way to cut these costs down? We also want to try and show why someone should purchase a bike over a car. We want people to see how easy it is to get around on a bike by showing what it is like to eliminate many issues associated with a car such as parking, stop lights, speeding tickets, etc.
These are some of the tests I planned out today, and we hope to come up with more after talking to Hwang, who has offered his mathematics expertise. All in all, it was a short day, but I am planning to work on Sunday when Eli and I can finally meet up. I just want to see if our gas bike runs! We're super excited to meet up again, and cannot wait to start our final week next week.
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