Yes, yes, that’s it, they announced a live date, then tore the ride down to rebuild it differently and missed that date, and two more since, all because of viral marketing..... that’s it.
Sorry but that’s nonsense, you don’t construct the ride on site completely and then tear it down and spend another month rebuilding it as part of a marketing campaign, to only have to miss the new date again.
They screwed the math, pure and simple. The entire concept is ill conceived, even the retrofitting they did to “fix” it is pretty well slap dash “engineering” as well.
Simply put, 60 MPH in a vehicle that is not connected to anything other than by gravity, filled with people who are not connected to the car by anything but gravity, sent toward a ramp clearly angled way to steep to do anything but result in flight when more than a certain load was put in the thing isn’t viral marketing, its bad math.
Don’t believe me, go watch the ride where they did it with the designer and engineer, if you watch that ride closely you’ll see they barely make it to the top of the hill, they didn’t do their math right, pure and simple. If you think engineers don’t screw up simple math, you have a lot of history of system failures to catch up on.
And if you think investors will put up millions and insurance companies will even talk to people who plan on risking public lawsuits without rock-solid engineering, you live on another planet.
At most, the risk was too great to leave to math alone, so they built an adjustable setup for final testing to both make absolutely sure the had it safe, and to see if their math applied perfectly it required real-world adjustments.
At most. But my bet is that their tests proved their math perfectly.
LOL, "barely making it to the top of the hill" is doing the math RIGHT! That's HOW you minimize the negative g- forces and keep it on the track. Go fast, and you fly off the hill!