During last Wednesdays meeting, Professor Furman presented us with the opportunity to choose which part of the project we wanted to get involved with. He gave us a tour of the facility and eventually I decided to work on the full scale model's fail safe system. The fail safe system is important because if any parts fail on the Superway it could lead to civilian death. I have thought about some ways in which we can implement some safety designs however it is difficult because it would have to be designed around what is already built for the bogie. There are many things to consider when designing the fail safe because they're so many moving parts that could possibly break. However the main concern is just to keep the cabin from falling 2 stories down from the rail system. Hopefully soon I can get a definite look at the the bogie system and hopefully can design a fail safe system that could prevent the bogie from falling and rolling backwards if gears ever break.
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