Digital Slot Car Information
Unlike analogue slot cars, which are confined to a single lane, digital slot cars allow for switching lanes. This offers a more realistic race experience and lets more than two cars compete on a two-lane track.
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Lane Changes
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The controllers for a digital slot car set have an extra button that, at designated crossovers, allows the player to change lanes. The crossovers are indicated by either an "X" that allows crossing in either direction or an "L" that only allows crossing in one direction.
Lane Sharing
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Traditional analogue slot cars are limited in that cars must stay in their lanes and may not pass each other. Digital slot car sets allow for multiple cars to race in the same lane.
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Group Racing
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In a two-lane analogue slot car set, only two cars may race at a time. With digital sets, up to six cars may race at once with multiple cars in the same lane at one time.
Realistic Racing
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Digital slot car sets allow for a more realistic racing experience than their analogue counterparts. This includes features like tracking fuel usage and allowing for "pit stops" as well as lap counting, tracking speeds and programming a pace car not controlled by an operator.
Brand Specific
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While most analogue cars will work on most analogue tracks, digital cars are brand specific. It is possible, in some cases, to upgrade analogue cars to digital.
Size
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The United States digital slot car market is dominated by Carrera and SCX, which is known as Scaletrix in the rest of the world. Most digital slot cars are 1/32 scale, but sets do exist in the smaller 1/43 scale.
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