I have more faith in a company that will tell me what its code can't do and not try to bamboozle me with prestidigitation tactics for a sale. Still, the complaints continue. I know some European companies are. Leavitt was U.S. national champion in the sport of observed trials. The object of this sport is to ride over obstacles without putting your foot down.
Speeds are low, and the emphasis is on skill and technique.
To refer to Lane as a racer is like referring to golf racers, chess racers, and violin racers. I am amazed to learn that I worked with something that became a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. We in the Maritime Administration were studying ways to reduce the costs of operation of U.S. ships. Obviously, reducing manning was one. Babcock and Wilcox, then owners of Bailey Meter, proposed automating controls for marine boilers so that they could run unattended.