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ASC regulations is more than just impounding and safety but those were the main ones we kept in the back of our minds while designing. Safety is just to make sure our box doesn’t separate from the car due to a crash or a roll-over (though the design of the car and ASC regulations make it impossible for a roll-over to occur anyway). Impounding is a rule that makes it so that the batteries are not accessible from outside of the box. This rule is in place to prevent teams from secretly replacing their modules with fully charged ones or from secretly charging the batteries from an external source. The event gives 4 of these seals shown in Figure 23, which is used to “lock” the box and make it impossible to access without breaking the seals (which can only be done with permission from the organizers and will be monitored, probably).

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