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It would be quite nice for us if the scope of the competition was for street legal vehicles; I'd be on board with that. The fact remains, though, that it is primarily a training exercise for students, and quite a vigorous one at that. I wonder if it's realistic to expect them to construct scratch-built street legal vehicles in a school year's time? Remember, these aren't seasoned veterans at design and fab; a huge part of it is to build the car from scratch and learn to build it from scratch; ya gotta start somewhere. Otherwise they would be looking at modifying existing vehicles... and there are already competitions for that. Keep in mind that nobody is really holding their hand through this process; yes there is a faculty advisor and I suppose there are variations in how "hands on" the advisor is, but mine was mainly there to help answer the team's questions- provide only the necessary guidance- not tell us what to do.
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