I happened to visit the facebook group of Shell Eco Marathon Asia one of these days, and getting straight to the point, I noticed that at least five teams, in a wannabe attempt to publicize their team or their vehicle, have posted the link to their respective facebook pages. All very well, but...what really caught my eye was the fact that two of these teams were from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, while one each were from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, and Pakistan Navay Engineering College Karachi. Ok, this didn't catch my eye. This did: these teams appear to be totally unrelated to the ones that participated last year (2010), which in turn seemed totally unrelated to the ones that participated the year before that.
It appears that these guys are...well, just following their whims, aspiring only to participate in an 'international event'; there appears to be a lack of general direction in which a vehicle, a technology or an idea gets gradual but constant nourishment in the longer run.
But then again, if everyone would have been doing it, we wouldn't be so unique. And here I go with the kaar-dogma once again...
so lets quit while we can. You get the point, right? :-)
[Edit: removed a picture of Kaar's design; have no idea what I was thinking when writing the post originally]
