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How Do They Run Test Track?
- Thread starter JonnyK
- Start date
The cars actually have motors in them. Only they are electric motors, not gas.
The ditch in the track holds a ton of wiring and a track inside of it that your car is connected to. Through this wiring the main computer sends lots of information into the car's motor, therfore making it stop and go when it needs to.
The ditch in the track holds a ton of wiring and a track inside of it that your car is connected to. Through this wiring the main computer sends lots of information into the car's motor, therfore making it stop and go when it needs to.
Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Its actually similar to those toy slot car tracks, only its attached.
MonorailBlack
Member
The ride is a riot...they actually have speakers in the car with engine roaring and acceleration sounds.....(highly noticable during the incline and increase increments during the s-turns)...so it sounds like a gas motor...
MonorailBlack
Member
I am not sure what they constructed it all out of, the bulk of the exterior being steel, but no matter how much criticism the ride gets for breaking down and all, I think it is a wonderful ride and really a bold step into a new technology of ride. i wtached the thing grow and open...thru all its soft previews and breakdowns....really, nobody has anything like it. It is one of my all time favorite rides. I will say it right here, Test Track deserves major praise....I admire those who take bold stpes, and this is certainly one!!!!:sohappy: :sohappy:
orlandoparks
New Member
I was just wondering, when you were talking about the engine noises, did any of you notice at the beginning, when you start, they make smoke under the back tire to make it look like the rubber is burning?
Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Throughout the ride, they use several effects to make the cars seem like real, gas cars. The most obvious is the car engine noises coming from the speakers. When you're on the ride in the high speed, outside part, it sounds like the engine is hauling, but when you're on the outside of Test Track, the cars just make a little electric "whirr" noise.
wanabeimagineer
New Member
Yea I notice that everytime. I also notice when you avoid the collision with the truck, on the right side of the car they make it look like you actually hit the barrier by making sparks fly out of it. They do a good job making it look real though.
Mission: SPACE
New Member
Just a side note now, GM makes cars now that use technology like on TT, where the front and back wheels turn.
DarkMeasures
New Member
Mission: SPACE said:
And people say that TT did no good.
TheOneVader
Well-Known Member
wdwfreak said:Yea, Its kinda Neat to hear the loud Roar, But its fun still!
last time i saw a car stopped in the middle of a track outside, like it broke down and it was all smokey.. the tracks are made of real roads or not. Im not sure what its made of.
The road is actually made of the same material found on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Also, those video screens hardly ever work. But, we were lucky enough to get a working one last time. We rode it a second time afetr that, and it was on, but stuck on one frame.
