The trials of racing without leaving a carbon footprint
9:55 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A solar car race makes a pit stop in Topeka.
About 20 cars are traveling cross-country and not leaving a carbon footprint.
They are competing in the North American Solar Challenge.
The cars stopped in Topeka for a quick check and a thirty minute rest.
Schools from across the nation have a solar car in the race.
It's a lot of hard work just to get a car entered.
"The most important thing to know about it is, that these students spent two to three years of their lives working on this and they...a lot of these students have to go out and seek their own funding and come up with their own ideas. There is no answers in the back of a book for these problems," race official Paul Hirtz said.
Drivers must obey speed and traffic laws, and one-person cars are followed by two vans that monitor them.
Learn more about this race here.
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