Create a new method named drive that accepts no arguments. It should call the newer drive method passing in a 1 for the

Question

This is the code I have been using but it is not working public void drive () { drive (1);

GoKart.java

class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  private String color;
  private int barCount;
  private int lapsDriven;

  public GoKart(String color) {
    this.color = color;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }
  public void charge() {
    barCount = MAX_BARS;
  }

  public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
    return barCount == 0;
  }

  public boolean isFullyCharged() {
    return MAX_BARS == barCount;
  }

  public void drive(int laps) {
    lapsDriven+=2;
    barCount-=2;
public void drive(){
  drive (1);
 }
  }

  }
}

Answer 1 · 2022-02-28T14:48:29Z

February 28, 2022 2:48pm

You think, it seems like I'm doing exactly what the teacher told me to do, but I'm getting this error

Bummer: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ParseException:

What is going on?

Well, you actually have 2 problems going on, however, only one of them is making it fail. 1st the critical error. The problem is that you accidentally placed the new method inside of the old, so this...

public void drive(int laps) {
    lapsDriven+=2;
    barCount-=2;
public void drive(){
  drive (1);
 }
  }

  }

should become

public void drive(int laps) {
    lapsDriven+=2;
    barCount-=2;
}
public void drive(){
  drive (1);

  }

Second problem

the public void drive(int laps) method is supposed to increase the value of lapsDriven by whatever the value of laps that was passed in. Right now, it doesn't matter how many laps you pass in, it always increases it by 2. This is incorrect, however, the challenge will not fail you for this. To fix it change,

public void drive(int laps) {
    lapsDriven+=2;
    barCount-=2;
}

to

public void drive(int laps) {
    lapsDriven+=laps;
    barCount-=laps;
}

Answer 2 · 2022-02-28T17:35:46Z

February 28, 2022 5:35pm

Thank you very much Caleb it worked

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