efficiencies and coefficients of drag in convoys

Efficiencies and Coefficients of Drag in Convoys
By L. Winslow

Lance Armstrong can go faster to win in the Tour de France by using drafting strategies and the NASCAR Driver s know of this too, as they use the opponents to block the wind. Working together in this way, they can conserve energy or fuel or both.

In trucking drivers know they can move faster down the road and conserve fuel when they get in a big line of trucks and barrel down the highway. To make this a safer event Efficiencies and Coefficients of Drag in Convoys can be improved by the use of radar following devices.

With the use of the sensors the trucks in a convoy will be able to drive extremely close together and therefore save considerable fuel due to large decreases in drag. For instance driving 75 mile per hour and less than 3-feet apart and do it safely. How on Earth could that be possible you ask?

The trucks will line up and communicate with one another. Each new truck can speed up and get in line and the guidance system and radar can be set for ultra-efficient convoy mode and it will slowly close the gap. Additionally when the system is dis-engaged it will alert the other truck systems to back off a safe distance to allow the truck in line out of the convoy.

In the future this will all come to pass and it will indeed save a large amount of diesel fuel in the US and it will prevent truck accidents and save lives. This is why these technologies are forthcoming and why researchers and designers are working on them now.

L. Winslow is an Aerodynamics, Technology and Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entreprenuer. Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by http://www.Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.

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