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Hi all,

I am currently working on the pit stops. 
The mechanism is partly working (only refuel now), and only the
human player is able to stop for refueling.

I am thinking about a new idea related to the pit stop strategy.
I'd like to introduce team managers as separate entities, able to 
manage multiple drivers and allowed to send orders and receive
status from the robots.

This approach have multiple advantages:
- separate the strategy code of the pure driving code.
- allowing team strategy instead of only robot one.
- allowing interactivity.

A default team manager will be provided in order to allow robots
without specific team manager.

I have planned to create a console in TORCS, this will allow to
send orders to the team managers in order to modify the strategy
of the robots for example.

Comments are welcome.

Eric Espie.