100,000 scale miles: a self-driving R/C car carries rctestflight's week off
No new uploads went up, and a lawn mowed by a miniature center pivot, with footage from a friend named Destin, kept the other half of the channel busy.
rctestflightStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Can an R/C Car Hit 100,000 Scale Miles? Self Driving Edition
Daniel Riley took a break from uploading, and his channel leaned on two recent builds to fill the gap.
The heavier lifting comes from "Can an R/C Car Hit 100,000 Scale Miles? Self Driving Edition," posted 25 days ago and now past four and a half million views. It is a very rctestflight sort of question: take a small hobby truck, the kind sold by Traxxas or Axial for backyard crawling, let it drive itself, and see how far the tiny drivetrain lasts. The man best known for autonomous boats and odd flying machines simply moved the experiment onto land.
Closer behind than its age might suggest is "Mowing My Lawn with a Mini Center Pivot," eight days old. It shrinks the giant circling irrigation rigs of farm country into a 3D-printed yard mower, and the description thanks Destin for sharing footage.
Without anything fresh, daily views ran at well under half the channel's usual pace, though a couple of thousand new subscribers still arrived. Among the DIY and building channels of similar size, eFIXX and Homeworthy had the big weeks; rctestflight sat in the middle of the group, still running on a self-driving truck and a mower that only turns in circles.
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