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Old 12-20-2018, 06:19 PM
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Default Flagtronics in car race flagging system

In car flagging is here, www.flagtronics.com .


A non-comprehensive list of benefits:
  • Fills in coverage holes between flag stations.
  • Gets dangerous cars who are unresponsive to black flags off track
  • Improve all drivers flag observation percentage
  • Helps first time novice drivers (lemons/champcar/hpde/etc) avoid wrecks
  • Allows messages to dangerous drivers red misting around track
  • Greatly improves night flagging
  • Greatly improves low visibility flagging in conditions like fog or heavy rain
  • Allows flagging when drivers line of sight to flag stand is obscured
  • Capable of notifying race control of a stopped car or wreck
  • Gives team flag information in the pits for improved strategy & safety
  • Capable of providing blue flag to improve safety passing
  • Pit Timer capability
  • Pit speed Warning
  • Emergency services may be dispatched to accident
  • Tow truck may be dispatched to disabled vehicle
  • Purple Flag speed warning (VIR 35 as example)
  • Color Blind supplementation as many color blind drivers can't distinguish existing flags
  • Avoid Black Flag confusion where multiple cars pit for the Black flag event of one car
What do y'all think?
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Savington has the best response possible!
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The moment NASA implements this, I'll buy a system and integrate it into my dash.
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This is an awesome idea. It'd be awesome to see one common protocol. There's FlagTronics, Flagger (apparently), Delphi's Yellow Light System (IMSA, $350 if you can figure out how to buy one), FIA apparently has one as well.
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NASA nationals in 2014 at Sonoma already had something really similar to this. You downloaded an app on your phone and it would display flags.
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