Originally Posted by
MULMZ2
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 track racing, birds eye view is significantly easier and faster every time I've seen anyone try it. Visibility is too low to see the corners coming up at the speed and scale we race at, and there's too much camera shake. And you can't see the cars behind you to defend. A spotter won't be fast enough to give you info about defensive lines.
Originally Posted by
MULMZ2
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.
How does FPV affect spectators in any way? It only affects the driver's perspective. If you just want the spectators to have an in car camera view, you don't need FPV for that.
Originally Posted by
MULMZ2
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?
Kind of. Though it's more about the downtime of waiting for the battery to charge or do maintenance or just wait for your race. We get roughly 6 minutes of track time per hour, gamers get 1 hour per hour. Attention spans are the issue, not screens. And if a kid tried FPV on an RC car the experience is so much worse that it'll put them off even more.
Originally Posted by
MULMZ2
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.
Modifying ESC firmware like that is explicitly illegal. There's nothing fundamental about this radio that changes the legality or capability of that kind of ESC feature. Open source on the radio doesn't help you modify a black box ESC firmware.