We do know that the brain contains billions and billions of neurons, and that we think and learn by establishing electrical connections between different neurons. If you’ve read How Becoming an Airplane Pilot Works, you know that pilots have to go through a lot of work before they can fly for the major airlines. Developing AI isn’t like building an artificial heart – scientists don’t have a simple, concrete model to work from. The basic idea of AI problem-solving is simple, though its execution is complicated. What all this boils down to is the software allows a savvy diesel engineer to tweak the air-fuel ratio in literally every cylinder to produce more than 1,000 horsepower and more than 6,000 pound-feet of torque (8,135 newton-meters) from a standard engine. As technology has changed, and engine management software has replaced brute force with finesse, most race trucks sport software that manages engine power and torque with algorithms and advanced math rather than mechanical crudities.
The race trucks are limited to a 12-liter diesel engine. The FIA mandates strict regulations including super trucks retaining much of the equipment standard to the everyday hauler, including a standard diesel engine. Rather than moving from the back roads and moonlight moonshine runs as early NASCAR drivers did, these trucks moved from hauling everyday goods to hauling, well, you know, around some of the more storied European and international race ways. Why won’t any old bag just do for your European travels? European super trucks, encompassing the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and China, race under the broad umbrella of the FIA, or Federation Internationale de l’Automobile, the French authority that also supervises the Formula One series. For example, the term “cousin” refers to the familial relationship between two people who share one set of grandparents. They have a set of criteria that they use to screen consumers in order to come up with a list of potential customers.
Easy to use: any travel wheelchair should be easy to set up, collapse, and use while on the go. But Len Lord’s bargain-basement roadster had done its job, reestablishing a popular market class while teaching an entire generation what real sports-car motoring was all about. The real challenge of AI is to understand how natural intelligence works. Just as physical robotic design is a handy tool for understanding animal and human anatomy, AI research is useful for understanding how natural intelligence works. Kismet, a robot created in 1998 at M.I.T.’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), recognized human body language and voice inflection and responded appropriately. Translated, this means the trucks are limited to a minimum weight of 12,000 pounds and a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour on the track due to the tremendous forces being created by hurling that amount of metal, at speed, around the track. Think of the truck delivering a trailer load of diapers to Wal-Mart thundering around a flat track at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour (161 kilometers per hour). He is all too aware of how much energy is produced by a super truck wielding a performance package on a race track.
Bowing to that energy and potential, drivers are cocooned in a steel roll cage, belted in with race harnesses, fire safety systems at the stand by, the truck’s suspension systems are lowered and limited in travel and stability is controlled by traction control systems in most locations as stock tires are required. Their drivers are much the same — average guys with not-so-average dreams making a name for themselves in a sport that drew more than 200,000 cheering fans to each race during its hey day. It has cute details making it a hoodie with a difference – not so sporty looking. Unless you make your complaints known while you’re traveling, the business owner often has no idea, and no chance to rectify the situation. They can also be used for word processing and accessing business related sites on the road, although their small screens and slower processors don’t make them ideal for some business uses. And while these leviathans are not likely to make it to United States shores anytime soon (at least as anything other than a video game), it’s still better to be ready, because it may only be a matter of years before American race fans embrace the brash and behemoth reality of super truck racing.
