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About
Europe has been using pedal powered vehicles for tours and pub crawls since about 1900, and only recently has the United States started to pick up on this growing trend. There are only a handful of Pedibus manufacturers in the United States and the sponsor for this project would like to bring up the Capitol City Pedibus company to a competitive level with the other front running pedibus manufacturing companies.
Capital City Pedicab Company and its owner Ron Goldstein have entrusted the Florida State University mechanical engineering department to aid and assist in their overall goal in setting up a manufacturing station of fully operating pedibus system in the southeast region of the United States. A development of a pedibus transportation vehicle involves various amounts of mechanical components and evaluations. The pedibus operates like that of a normal bike, it involves a steering system, drive train, braking system, peddling station, and sometimes it involves some type of alcohol distribution system. Team 18 has taken on the task of completing the design of the pedibus development project and will take all the necessary steps to make positive that the model is fun, eco-friendly, and most of all safe to the public and environment.
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