When Hero's steam car crossed the starting line, a bright blue logo appeared above Hero's steam car and hovered there, moving with the movement of the steam car.
The current status of the Hilo car is marked with clear text, such as name, speed, load, water addition amount, carbon addition amount, etc.
Almost five minutes after Hero set off, the second participating car on display began to warm up at Dean's signal. Of course, during this process, key issues such as load were also asked.
When the warm-up was over, the second car also started clanging.
In this way, a participating car will set off every five minutes or so, and the appearance of each participating car will attract loud cheers and applause from the surrounding audience.
Chateau and Niya watched silently from the stands, exchanging a few words with Leiden from time to time, because the winners of these cars will become the public transportation in the territory and are under the control of Leiden. If you have any questions, you can ask them as soon as possible.
It can be solved as soon as possible.
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During the starting stage, there were no accidents among participating vehicles, but there were quite a few that experienced breakdowns and stopped on the road. The reasons were of course multifaceted.
Some people see that others can seat six people at a time and are worried that they will fall behind in the evaluation, so they also propose a six-person load. If it is overloaded, accidents will easily occur;
Some are purely mechanical failures, but more often they are due to road conditions.
In the previous preparation stage, these participating teams basically conducted vehicle testing in the floating city in order to use the alchemy array to adjust the structure of the motorcycle at any time.
The roads in the Floating City were integrated in the early stages of the construction of the Floating City. Although they have undergone subsequent fine-tuning and reinforcement, it is not undeniable that the road conditions in the Floating City are definitely far better than the [Daxia-Saville Passage].
[Daxia-Saville Passage] The road condition was also very good at first, but compared with the dirt roads and gravel roads in the past, in fact, in Xia Duo's eyes, this road is wide enough, but in terms of quality,
Not even comparable to the rural roads in his hometown.
It is just a matter of leveling the forest, compacting it, and laying pavement bricks. However, after two years of use, many sections of the road have suffered from subsidence, broken pavement bricks, or even missing pavement bricks.
Although the Territory Logistics Department has been actively maintaining it, it is impossible to completely restore it to its original state, not to mention that Xia Duo has stated in advance that there will be no need for maintenance during this period.
The logistics department does not maintain it, but the horse-drawn carriages transporting goods between the two places will not stop, which makes the condition of this road even more complicated.
In addition, the design of the steam car itself is a relatively difficult task for the participating teams at the current stage. Most of the steam cars are imitating the original version of Hero.
It is sometimes difficult to hide the floating city trial from the eyes of other teams, but it is also difficult to understand the internal structure through one or two observations.
This makes the distinction between various vehicles extremely exaggerated, and almost all depends on the mechanical design talent of each team.
Well, it is close to being practical, and it has made a plan that is relatively consistent with the improvement suggestions that Chateau once proposed to Hero - Hero did not hide Chateau's evaluation and opinions on the prototype car from other teams.
The worst ones can't even imitate prototype cars. Of course, the worst ones have given up the competition before the start of the display stage. Those who can appear in the display stage have at least reached a certain level.
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Soon, just as the last four or five cars were about to set off, Hero, who was the first to start, had already entered the final sprint stage before the finish line.
Even though it was because he started first so he could come back first and was not the fastest in the end, the onlookers couldn't care less. Any change on the field could arouse their cheers.
Not to mention that Hero's steam car ran the entire distance safely without any accidents, which brought him great popularity.
Today, the literacy rate in Daxia is not to say 100%, but at least over 90%, not to mention that Dean, as the host of the competition, also specially introduced the members of Hero's team before departure.
At this moment, when Hero successfully completed the race, almost everyone at the south end and north end of the [Daxia-Saville Passage] were shouting Hero's name.
Of course, the names of Burley and others in Hero's team also appeared in the cheers and shouts of the crowd, but compared to Hero who appeared as a driver, those voices were much less numerous.
After Hiro returned, the car was turned off and parked in the display area, and he himself went to the rest area with other teammates to start an early celebration.
Of course, all this did not affect the continuation of the game. The four or five vehicles that had not yet started still started in their own order.
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In the stands.
Chateau turned around and asked Layton, "What do you think of this car?"
"The speed is a little slower. Although it is faster than a carriage, the load capacity is not as good as a carriage. If it only has six people, it is not suitable for public use in the territory. I wonder what the cost of this vehicle is?"
"The cost is just the steel to make that car, you don't have to worry about the rest."
"If you only count steel, it's a bit high. I think this car still has room for improvement."
There is still room for improvement. In other words, it actually means losing. Both Layton and Chateau are very concerned about the condition of the competition vehicles, but he is more concerned about the practicality of these vehicles. To be more precise, they provide convenience to the current territory.
If it is possible, of course the territorial government affairs department will make the purchase; if not, then the money will certainly not be wasted.
As he said, if only steel is counted, the cost is also very high. Currently, there are no iron ores in Daxia Territory. After integrating with Savile Territory, the iron ore in Saville Territory can be used.
But the problem is not calculated in this way. Originally, an iron mine only needed to supply the Savile Territory, but now it has to supply the Bactria Territory, which has a larger population than the Savile Territory.
Considering that after the integration of the two places, all aspects need to implement the standards of the Daxia Territory, and there are too many places where iron is used, which makes steel resources even more tense.
Even if there is external input, it will be difficult to meet the long-term development of the territory. Leiden is obviously unwilling to relax its standards in this regard.
"Then which car are you more optimistic about?" Xia Duo asked again.
"I'm more optimistic about the one driven by Adolf!"
"The one Adolf drove?"
Leiden talked about that car, and Chateau was very impressed, because Adolf's team made the most obvious changes to the prototype, and everyone else copied or improved it based on the prototype.
Only Adolf's team almost overturned the design of the prototype, placing the steam engine in an independent locomotive, followed by multiple carriages pulled by the locomotive, similar to the design of a train.
It's just that the design of this team focuses more on the car body structure rather than the core steam engine and transmission device. This makes their car, although it has the largest load - three carriages, each carrying eight people.
But the speed is also the slowest, not much faster than walking. This is a perfect replica of the Hero version of the prototype car. Many cars starting behind Adolf have already passed him.