TRAINING TOPIC VEHICLES POSTERS CURRENT DISPLAYS Virtual Windshields (small scale) Surface vehicles will need at least 20 cm thick of water or equivalent in order to shield against the life-threatening solar particle events such as a solar flare. The Network’s proposed solution is to have the crew cabin surrounded by hollow walls filled with either locally-produced water, polyethylene, or less desirably, dirt. However, there's one slight problem. If your windows are covered, how can you see out? Our solution is to have flat screens inside where every window would be located. These would be connected to a close circuit camera directly on the other side of the shielding. As you turn the vehicle, the cameras change their point of view which is reflected on the screens. This simple display illustrates the concept. However, the Network would eventually like to have a project run by members and/or university students to construct an electric vehicle that visitors to the Space Fair could drive around in where passengers could see scenes from the Moon or Mars on the internal flat screens. When you turn drive forward and turn the vehicle, computers would display on the screen what the cameras would show if on the Moon or Mars. FUTURE DISPLAYS Virtual Windshields (full scale) Much further into the future, we would like to develop an electric crew vehicle that visitors could ride in. Even better would be if volunteer engineers or university students could develop a set of flat screens where the windows would be that are connected to cameras on the other side of shielding. As the vehicle turns the windows would show what is beyond them. And, using computers and momentum sensors, the images on the screen could make it appear as though one is driving around the Moon or Mars. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Making Dirt Roads Lunar Road Map Martian Road Map Back to: Training