We Drove (And Crashed) The NEW Lunar Rover

NASA is going back to the moon and they are going to need a new ride. Tim Stevens took a virtual ride in the latest generation of Lunar Rovers.
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The ORIGINAL MOON BUGGY, developed in the 1960s by General Motors and deployed on three separate Apollo missions in the early '70s, was formally called the Lunar Roving Vehicle. 50 years on, NASA's Artemis program a new program to get humans back on the moon as soon as 2025. They'll need a new way to get around and GM is building that buggy. This one's called the Lunar Mobility Vehicle, developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, and I was recently lucky enough to drive it.
Well, a simulated version of the thing, anyway. General Motors' sprawling Milford Proving Ground sits about 45 minutes northwest of Detroit. It covers thousands of acres and offers hundreds of miles of test tracks but, crucial for this enterprise, also houses a number of massive driving simulators. These can be customized to offer any of a number of driving experiences, from droning down the highway to screaming around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
With a few tweaks, they can be made to simulate the moon, and that's exactly what GM engineers did. The moon of course offers roughly one sixth the gravity that we experience here on Earth, but there are other differences, too, like a lack of wind resistance and a generally loose, slippery surface to traverse.

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I miss Brian Cooley.

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where are you guys? did you stop making videos?

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“1/6 gravity on the moon vs the U.S.” lol. I wonder what the gravity is in Canada?

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Gravity varies with geographical location on Earth, thanks to the fact that the equator is bulging, and the equator experiences the apparent centrifugal effect that nullifies a tiny bit of gravity. It is lowest at 9.76 N/kg on equatorial mountain tops, and highest at 9.83 N/kg at the north pole. So it's about a tenth of a percent higher in Canada than it is in the contiguous US.

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So did the crash end this channel?

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CNET closed this channel?

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Without trying to diss the others (who are all competent in their own right), Cooley was a huge part of the draw for much, if not most, of the viewership of CNET on Cars/Roadshow/etc. No one has his personality or wit or fine tuned sense of what exactly to focus in on. So I’m not surprised to see they basically closed up shop on the video side of things.

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@@NibblerYT 💯. Where is Mr Cooley? New channel?

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@@torocars9227 he's back on CNET's main channel.

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Will it be cheaper than the Hummer EV ?

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My guess is no

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First Moon Crash

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what happened to this channel

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Imagine being on the moon or Mars, and then you get a message saying GM is recalling the Lunar Rover for battery issues.

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