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UrduHigh-end bicycles used for high-profile road races such as the Tour de France are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks targeting the bike’s wireless gear shifting system.
The researchers are now working with Shimano, one of the leading bicycle component manufacturers, to patch the vulnerabilities.
Tag: Racing
F1 driver seat ‘avatar’ has potential to improve comfort and performance
Formula 1 team Williams Racing has partnered with University experts to develop the first-known driver seat using pioneering biomechanics technology
New study appears to have the answer to one of F1’s oldest questions: Which is more important car and team, or driver?
80-20 rule of car being most important factor to success, dismissed using statistical modelling and race analysis across eight seasons.
Rounding Errors Could Make Certain Stopwatches Pick Wrong Race Winners
Obtaining split-second measurements relies on faultlessly rounding a raw time recorded by a stopwatch or electronic timing system to a submitted time. Researchers at the University of Surrey found certain stopwatches commit rounding errors when converting raw times to final submitted times. In American Journal of Physics, they outline a series of computer simulations based on procedures for converting raw race times for display.
Father, son bond over engineering a record-smashing roadster
For the past eight years, Sandia National Laboratories manager Joel Wirth has been working afterhours in his home garage with his crew chief — his father, Jack Wirth, a retired electrical engineer from Sandia. Together, they’ve built one of the fastest 1927 Model T roadsters in the world.