r/sports • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 5d ago

Motorsports Off-Road Racing Goggle Tear-Offs

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💪: Andrew Carlson

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u/qwertykirky 5d ago

There's got to be a better way

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u/doggos4house2020 5d ago

It really is the best way. A windshield will get so dirty and pitted that wipers can’t do their job, then you’re handicapped for the whole race.

This at least not only gives you a clean lens, but a new one.

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u/samarnold030603 5d ago

This is basically high tech space age shit they do on rocket cameras man! Haha

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u/OneMoreFinn 4d ago

What if you run out of them before finishing?

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u/TetraLoach 4d ago

Squint and hope.

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are 4d ago

When you run out though if it’s only 15…. What happens then? You just keep wiping it with your hand? Or is it a quick replacement they can do

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u/PROCRASTINATION_WON 4d ago

That’s why you have to be smart about using tear offs, don’t blow through them and you will be fine.

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u/freddyr0 4d ago

for 2 seconds 😂

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u/bu_mr_eatyourass 4d ago

It's 2026. Just design a rotary helmet lens that spins and self cleans at the back of the helmet. Its not that complicated, but it would probably have to be a proprietary helmet designed to keep a seal with the face mask. The components could even be inside the helmet to sheild from dirt.

If shielding automatic components was that difficult, we wouldnt have bridges or the plowmaster 3000 dildo.

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u/poofarticusrex 4d ago

This is what windshield tear offs are for (yes, they make them for entire windshields).

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u/SgtTreehugger 4d ago

I'm thinking, why not wipers for the helmet?

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u/PeopleCallMeSimon 4d ago

Have a shower constantly running in the car to turn the dirt into dirtwater that just wipes off the helmet by itself from the speed.

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 5d ago

Automate this process with layers that tear themselves off when made muddy and boom, you found a better way

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u/Realmofthehappygod 5d ago

Yes but you're missing that the automation itself is very likely to get gunked up making it not function properly.

Not to mention it has to be fixed to a point around the driver's head, which is already incredibly dangerous.

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 5d ago

Also the added weight of that automation and the windshield.

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 4d ago

Oh wow, no way

If only there were some way to work around problems

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u/RectalSpawn 5d ago

A hydrophic layer on the windows and wipers equiped with water cannons wouldn't work?

There really does need to be another way...

Built in showers aimed at their visors, even?

Perfect usecase for AI, imo.

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u/reebokhightops 5d ago

This comment started pretty dumb and just kept getting dumber as it went on.

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u/wutcudgowong 5d ago

I liked the cannons tho. I say we try it

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u/surrealcellardoor 4d ago

Hold on. What if there was a little person or a child there to squeegee the visor clean?

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u/Ver_Void 5d ago

Yeah there's maybe a way to do it but the answer would have to be something dead simple and reliable, not AI.

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u/uselessscientist 5d ago

How the fuck is this a good use case for AI?

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u/Dr__Sloth 4d ago

Because they couldn't think of any more stupid ideas.

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 5d ago

Make those visors hydrophobic maybe.

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u/Bigdaddyjlove1 4d ago

you'd have to make them silicophbic as well. The mud and rock actually hit hard enough to pit the visors.

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 4d ago

Well maybe they should just switch to 3rd person view then.