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Yes! That's my favorite movie ever... I'm guessing that is what they are referring to, haha.]]>Mar 1st 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/;)]]>Mar 1st 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
Order up!]]>Mar 1st 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/maybe that's why the solar race always finishes here.]]>Mar 1st 2009 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
It looks like MIT took their ideas from GM's Sunraycer which won the 1987 solar races.

http://www.speedace.info/sunraycer_general_motors.htm]]>Mar 2nd 2009 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/If anyone is interested in the hitchhiking idea please be aware that many states have laws that read as follows:
"(1) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride."

or

"(a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle."
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"(a) No person shall stand in a roadway else they shall be roadkill."]]>Mar 1st 2009 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
A comparison to the Midnight Sun car might be appreciated. They did a loop around America a couple of years back, including the Northwest.]]>Mar 1st 2009 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
Check it out if you want, its kinda cool.
http://solarcar.mst.edu/what_is_car/ ]]>Mar 1st 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
It seems that math skills are not required at all. My college's team has included social science and fine art majors. This year's electrical team leader is a Business Administration major. We don't even have an engineering department, but we came in 2nd place in the 2008 NASC, 20 hours ahead of MST. I seem to recall beating MIT in the past as well. Funny, I don't remember Engadget reporting anything about that. To be fair though, MIT has lots of geek ‘cred. This article seems to be about the name of the car more than anything else. Our car is named RA. Apparently not cool enough.]]>Mar 2nd 2009 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
F.D.R could've done better.]]>Mar 1st 2009 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
what i meant to say was... i bet you some jagoff will use that line from star trek!.... pshhhh]]>Mar 1st 2009 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/
notnews]]>Mar 1st 2009 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 2:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/mit-team-develops-solar-car-bodly-calls-it-eleanor/Mar 1st 2009 3:04AM