Week 5 Update

This week brought some major changes to our plans for the project. After talking with Dr. Furman, we decided to follow Futran' s bogie system, consisting of a drive and slave bogie. We feel this is a better solution as it allows for various sizes of pods to run on the Superway with no modifications needed. This also provides more space for the bogie components to be laid out while providing a better grip to the drive bogie’s wheels.

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