Because it's easy to build a concept car, but it's hard to make a concept car really meaningful on the road - every big auto show, you can see a lot of sci-fi cars, but only a few of them can be carried over into reality.

At present, the variable spoiler device developed by Yang Ming, or the scale pneumatic system, is still in the conceptual design and has not yet passed the verification of reality.

So after buying the wind tunnel, the company contracted a cargo plane and flew to Houston with secret products.

Without much leisure, I went straight to the wind tunnel laboratory and began to prepare for the test.

This technology sounds complicated, and you want to keep each "scale" in a different shape, and adjust the degree according to different speeds and pressures?

This kind of technology has never been seen in the history of automobiles, let's just say that the most advanced F1 has a spoiler (rear wing) that is only a few levels of adjustment!

But Yang Ming asked this car, the scales of the whole body are controlled by the central computer, and the computer will make corresponding controls and adjustments according to the driving status!

Among them, the design of electronic control and motor alone is a set of complex projects, which cannot increase the weight too much and cannot affect the overall structure of the vehicle.

The drag coefficient is required to be around 0.25 when the scales are closed, and the bigger the better, when the scales are on—if it can exceed 1.0, it will theoretically be able to run against the ceiling!

Wind tunnel testing is an important test of the car body.

Yang Ming and the company's technical personnel were watching, the test began immediately after the preliminary preparations, and the 1/2 scale M-1 test vehicle was being tested by the wind.

Various sensors and detectors are all over the place, collecting the coefficients of each point on the car body as key experimental data, which will be recorded in the driving computer in the future and let it make corresponding adjustments.

If you want to be intelligent, then you have to build on a huge amount of data. This is the kind of scientific data that would take thousands of hours or more of wind tunnel testing to obtain.

The trials in this area have been lengthy.

Yang Ming still needs to make some adjustments halfway, the design is from the concept of being ahead of his mind, but when put into reality, it will be restricted by the current technology, and the effect has to be weakened.

After 50 hours of testing, the aerologist admits: "The data we needed was complex, and the angle of the scales generated different downforces for every 10 kilometres of difference at different speeds. ”

At speeds of 100 and 110 mph, the angle of adjustment of this concept car is different!

In fact, Yang Ming also hopes to be accurate to one kilometer, such as 100 and 101 speeds, and the adjustment of the scales should also be different...... But it's too hard, beyond the current state of the art.

It can only be counted as 10, but the data generated is still huge, because there are fifteen spoilers in the whole body, each with more than 5 angles and inclinations, and can combine more than 100,000 schemes!

If it were an accuracy of 1 kilometer, more than a million kinds of data would be generated, and just processing these would not be something that their team could handle, I am afraid only a supercomputer.

"By the way, can we use a supercomputer?"

Boss Yang really thought of this, and everyone looked at him a little numbly.

It's amazing enough these days, from the boss's genius design, to buying a wind tunnel without saying a word, to now saying that you want to use supercomputing...... All became numb and operated normally.

Yang Ming talked about his thoughts: "We will use supercomputing to sort out a set of optimal aerodynamic programs for maintaining downforce at different speeds and input them into our driving computer!"

"These are the best driving conditions that we have verified thousands of times, and when the driver actually uses the car, the substitute program adjusts the scales, so that the driving computer has the ability to learn!"

The trip computer will grasp the driver's habits, control the scales for different performances in different states, and each driver will have their own style.

Racing will be smart!

Everyone was amazed and thought it was okay.

But the amount of work is not small.

The computer expert understood: "I have a few friends who work at IBM and can rent their supercomputers for this project, but they need to get enough data. ”

"Rest assured to prepare!" Yang Ming once again made them understand that money is not a problem!

The focus is on this sci-fi technology, one foot into reality!

Although it is inevitably castrated due to the limitations of basic technology, it is also a slinging for the current environment. Ensure that all peers can only look at its taillights from afar, and sigh with emotion!

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Yang Ming's road to being a crazy car expert continues.

After the wind tunnel test, his workload was reduced because it required thousands of hours of constant adjustments and revisions, and this time it was more of a theoretical operation.

During this period, he returned to China three times to deal with some necessary business matters, such as the fire of PUBG as he expected, and now Internet cafes are full of chicken, leaving penguins with fewer and fewer bargaining chips to negotiate.

The pharmaceutical industry is also growing steadily, the European market has opened up and the response has been good, and bitcoin has entered a period of skyrocketing, with a total of 150,000 bitcoins smiling.

Yang Ming let go of more power, and let professional managers take care of the company's business, although he will not be able to achieve 100% of his wishes, but he now has a higher pursuit.

There is no difference between earning 100 million more and earning 100 million less, and the closer and closer of his dream makes him care more. He is currently the only one who can subvert the traditional automobile industry and combine intelligence with racing to a large extent.

In the afternoon chat with old friends, it was inevitable that a few points were revealed.

"You have been in the United States for so long, it turns out that you are building cars?" Zhang Haiyan was a little surprised.

"Look at your expression, what do you think I'm doing that can't be seen?" Yang Ming took a sip of tea, thinking that he might have been before, but now he likes speed machines more than women.

"I don't think you've ever shown this before, that's amazing!" she folded her chin in adoration.

"I can't stand you. Yang Ming ignored her.

But Li Wei is also interested: "Can you share it?"

Yang Ming was very refreshing: "No problem! If you like it, how about watching the scene directly? I will go to the United States again in two days, is it convenient for the two of you?"

"Our visa is long!" Zhang Haiyan is in charge of Li Wei, her best friend's mind understands herself, and her self-esteem is unwilling to take a step, so she will help you.

So it was logical that I got on the G650 that flew to Los Angeles, and everyone was in good spirits after landing, and I didn't have much to visit, and it wasn't the first time I came.

Yang Ming took them directly to Maxwell's test site. A while ago, he wanted to buy a track next to it as an exclusive test site, but the other party did not agree to retreat and charter the track.

Now it is used as a research and development and testing center for the M-1 project, and I saw the prototype body, which looked ugly without beautiful paint, seam patching, and something that looked like tape.

"Wow!" But in Zhang Haiyan's eyes, she cares about the design: "Is this what the scales look like? It's too sci-fi!"

"You really built such a car!" Li Wei didn't know that much, but she also felt that she had never seen this kind of appearance, and she felt extraordinary just by looking at it.

"It's still being commissioned. "The wind tunnel test has been more than 600 hours, and a lot of reliable data has been obtained, and the prototype test is being carried out at the same time." ”

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