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Old 12-18-2023 | 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by gigaplex
Please no. If I wanted to drive my vehicle looking at a screen, I'd play a video game.
You may not want to drive an RC that way, but a lot of others do and will and this radio will allow them to do it with ease. The speed run crowd is going to go nuts with ELRS and FPV once they figure it out. I'd like to try FPV on a track, I think lap times would come down and being consistent would become easier and FPV on an off road track would be fun. Hooking up a Fanatec wheel/pedals or Logitech wheel/pedals to the radio would be next level and VW actually does something similar or exactly this at the LA car show.

For the past two years VW has had a track with 2 RC's running on it near one of the entrances of the convention center and they have the driving element (2 Drivers side by side, kinda like the Daytona 500 arcade setup) set up in their booth in one of the neighboring halls and there is always a line to drive/race RC's on a track using FPV. Wonder if they are using ELRS? FPV surface racing could be exactly what RC Racing needs to get it back on track and people interested again. It would make watching races a lot more interesting.

Aren't you one of several people on this forum that is always saying that kids don't want to RC because they'd rather look at a screen? Well here's a golden opportunity to get those kids into RC. Think outside the box man. And who cares how people choose to drive their RC as long as they are having fun and taking part. The surface segment of this hobby needs a real good and hard kick in the pants. If an RC track set up something similar to what VW sets up at the car show and charged people to use it, I'd put good money on it being very popular and I'd bet money that it would bring people into the hobby, I would also put money on that track putting in as many driving stations as they could, because I think it would be that popular and it's a whole hell of a lot cheaper than racing/maintaining a go kart. I'm also willing to bet that in the not so distant future (a lot sooner than you think) people will be racing surface RC using FPV while sitting at their pit table and if that brings new people into the hobby and racing, awesome.

FPV Drone Racing is much more popular than surface RC Racing and I'd bet that FPV is the reason.

Originally Posted by gigaplex
Push to pass is already possible on other radios, it requires an ESC with the feature (Dash and Team Powers come to mind) and the feature is illegal for blinky racing. Without ESC support there's nothing the radio can do to get more power.
I'm aware of this but this radio can possibly make every ESC capable of push to pass and a bunch of other things that weren't possible before once someone writes the code to make the ESC do whatever it is they want it to do.

Another cool thing that can more than likely be done with this radio is using a button or slider to apply brake so that you don't have to let off the throttle as much or at all. It could make corner entry a lot easier and allow someone to drive deeper into the corner since braking will be easier.

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