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* I picked up Jamie's computer rendering of the Robo Taxi Monday afternoon.
* I placed it on the light table and compared it's roof contour to everything I had.
* The 'Robo's' roofline is most like the Electra Mechanica 'Solo' BEV three-wheeler.
* In side elevation, the 'aft-body' constitutes 43.33% total body length.
* At its trailing edge, the uninterrupted roof contour's down-slope angle is 20.5-degrees to the horizon.
* In ground reflection mirror image, the car forms a 'free-stream' body of L/D = 2.198:1 fineness ratio when the tail is extrapolated to its conclusion; very close to the drag minimum reported in Sighard Hoerner's 1951, 'AERODYNAMIC DRAG'.
* At the ground plane, the tail's maximum slope angle is 25-degrees ( dimpled golf ball separation point )
* The Tesla's Vejungungsverhaltnis is 1.45.
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