Forever Motoring
We are moved at so many levels of landscape, be those traditionally physical, emotional, mental or virtual. From city designers to coders to car manufacturers, we can work together to create a better vision for motoring.
A 'motor' is the source of any vehicle that moves us, and those vehicles come at many different scales. Whether it is a bike, a car, or a piece of music, a motor is anything that moves us consistently and structures the ways and means of our movement.
Ecological transportation begins with understanding that the vehicles and infrastructures moving us create cognitive systems. Our minds have been channeled in part by the ways we motor--the ways we move ourselves, our materials, and our ideas.
EMI (the ecological motoring initiative) creates and facilitates conversations towards a new notion of motoring. We believe part of the work to be done is in noticing and better understanding the current cognitive systems being created by our forms of motoring, observing the ways they structure our daily lives and activities, and moving into the desirable unknown with a whole new vision of what motoring can be, including its means and materials.
How can we meet the motoring needs of all in a way that is ecological? What does it mean to move within the means of the living planet? How can we move in ways that inspire and motivate us and increase our potentials longterm?
Let’s think through these issues together towards a healthier future and a whole new kind of motoring.
Forever Motoring
The Sustainability of Sim Racing & Real Life with Saorise Fitzpatrick
Saorise Fitzpatrick is a delightful human being and the 2023 winner of Screen to Speed and we are posting this conversation with her on the eve of the Screen to Speed Holiday Invitational, a very special event where star real life racecar drivers compete with sim racers.
Saorise won the Sim Racing competition first, then got to race for real at the Las Vegas speedway in a Porsche with Sabre Cook of Kelly Moss there for support. Before driving the Porsche, she had only ever driver her mom's car in the parking garage. Saorise describes it all here for us and for those not yet familiar with sim racing, she gives a good overview of what it is, and how it feels to be a virtual racer and then become a real racer on a real track.
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Watch the conversation @moveusforward https://www.youtube.com/@moveusforward
Watch the documentary of the first event.
This Episode goes along with a post on Forever Motoring called Simulated Motoring.
And it is broadcast in honor of the Screen to Speed Holidays Invitational, a special event that pits real female race care drivers racing against female sim racers.
More at www.screentospeed.com.
The Screen to Speed Holiday Invitational: https://www.screentospeed.com/
iracing: https://www.iracing.com/
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Formula 1 Sim Racing Championship
Saoirse Fitzpatrick: Barista, SIM Racer, Delightful human being, Winner of Screen to Speed
Saoirse: [00:00:00] The kind of variation of things that you can do in sim racing is very similar to what you can do in real life.
Really the only, restriction is what the software you're using can do. Like if there's content for, say, , Formula Vs. On iRacing we have Formula Vs. Which is great because Formula Vs race everywhere. And if like, you really want to try Formula Vs out, you can get iRacing and download the Formula V.
Turn some laps or, um, you can do oval racing on iRacing. You can do a dirt oval, dirt road, like Raleigh cross. There's a hill climb course on iRacing, um, or as well with most of my experiences in sprint races, so like one hour and shorter or endurance races. So like four ish hours and more. Ranging from open wheelers to touring cars to GT cars like the GT3s and GT4s or prototypes.
Kind of the sky is the limit.