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Both Father Frost and Santa Claus are not just characters of the New Year holidays. They are also active drivers, giving gifts to the entire planet at least
Santa Claus, like his Western counterpart, doesn’t just sit in his office distributing tasks to the elves and processing mail. As you know, Santa Claus and Santa Claus are also drivers. Once a year, they both board their wagons and personally deliver a huge amount of gifts to the recipients. Naturally, we are interested in what kind of vehicles these gentlemen actually use. And what are the technical characteristics of their transport. Let’s start with Sinterklaas.
It moves quite modestly, obviously due to the specifics of our road network. His sleigh is pulled by a trio of horses, which in some sources are given the names of the winter months – December, January and February. By the way, the Oryol trotters are in for the top three. The mass of one horse is 550 kilograms. And that’s three. So we get 1650 kilograms of indomitable strength and beauty. At the same time, the harness of the horses is richly decorated with bells and whistles, which later turned out to be the prototype of modern sirens. Sinterklaas is something else.
On the one hand, he also moved on a sled. But deer already set them in motion. And the northern one. The mass of such a living power module is 180 kg. And until 1939 there were already 8 in Santa’s team and they have names – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. And in 1939 something bad happened. Due to sudden bad weather, snow and fog, Father Frost’s western colleague was unable to come by to hand out gifts. Fortunately, by a strange coincidence, one of the deer on the reserve turned out to have a red luminescent nose and an unusual name of Rudolf.
And the deer nose lit up the road well in the dark. This is how the first navigation system with elements of autonomous driving was born. However, our Santa Claus was not seen in situations with the loss of the route, and even more gifts. That is, a navigation system or even an autopilot was immediately present in the basic configuration. And if we compare the specific power of the Santa Claus and Santa Claus crews, the advantage lies with the domestic vehicle. Against 1650 pounds of horse explosive power, Santa can only carry 1620 pounds of deer. And then, if you count Rudolph.
And he seemed to be more responsible for navigation than speed. By the way, Rudolf’s nose led to an unexpected result. It seems that it was thanks to him that flashing lights for special vehicles were invented. Because it was in the 1940s that these devices were first used in transportation. Then beacons in the colors blue, red, green, orange and moon white were used to attract the attention of drivers. And this color scheme is ideal for decorating a Christmas tree.
In general, Santa Claus can be attributed, if not to the patron, then to the equalization of the capabilities of vehicles, regardless of their cost, saturation with technologies and year of manufacture. Indeed, in winter, due to a decrease in the coefficient of adhesion to the road, the dynamics of cars ceases to depend on engine power and is determined solely by the level of the pilot’s skill. But the mark of a true master is that he is in no hurry. And the AvtoVzglyad portal wishes that your behavior while driving does not force the traffic police to “please” you with the help of a mobile Christmas tree with special signals.
Santa Claus, like his Western counterpart, doesn’t just sit in his office distributing tasks to the elves and processing mail. As you know, Santa Claus and Santa Claus are also drivers. Once a year, they both board their wagons and personally deliver a huge amount of gifts to the recipients. Naturally, we are interested in what kind of vehicles these gentlemen actually use. And what are the technical characteristics of their transport. Let’s start with Sinterklaas.
It moves quite modestly, obviously due to the specifics of our road network. His sleigh is pulled by a trio of horses, which in some sources are given the names of the winter months – December, January and February. By the way, the Oryol trotters are in for the top three. The mass of one horse is 550 kilograms. And that’s three. So we get 1650 kilograms of indomitable strength and beauty. At the same time, the harness of the horses is richly decorated with bells and whistles, which later turned out to be the prototype of modern sirens. Sinterklaas is something else.
On the one hand, he also moved on a sled. But deer already set them in motion. And the northern one. The mass of such a living power module is 180 kg. And until 1939 there were already 8 in Santa’s team and they have names – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. And in 1939 something bad happened. Due to sudden bad weather, snow and fog, Father Frost’s western colleague was unable to come by to hand out gifts. Fortunately, by a strange coincidence, one of the deer on the reserve turned out to have a red luminescent nose and an unusual name of Rudolf.
And the deer nose lit up the road well in the dark. This is how the first navigation system with elements of autonomous driving was born. However, our Santa Claus was not seen in situations with the loss of the route, and even more gifts. That is, a navigation system or even an autopilot was immediately present in the basic configuration. And if we compare the specific power of the Santa Claus and Santa Claus crews, the advantage lies with the domestic vehicle. Against 1650 pounds of horse explosive power, Santa can only carry 1620 pounds of deer. And then, if you count Rudolph.
And he seemed to be more responsible for navigation than speed. By the way, Rudolf’s nose led to an unexpected result. It seems that it was thanks to him that flashing lights for special vehicles were invented. Because it was in the 1940s that these devices were first used in transportation. Then beacons in the colors blue, red, green, orange and moon white were used to attract the attention of drivers. And this color scheme is ideal for decorating a Christmas tree.
In general, Santa Claus can be attributed, if not to the patron, then to the equalization of the capabilities of vehicles, regardless of their cost, saturation with technologies and year of manufacture. Indeed, in winter, due to a decrease in the coefficient of adhesion to the road, the dynamics of cars ceases to depend on engine power and is determined solely by the level of the pilot’s skill. But the mark of a true master is that he is in no hurry. And the AvtoVzglyad portal wishes that your behavior while driving does not force the traffic police to “please” you with the help of a mobile Christmas tree with special signals.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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