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You know how, when you turn your vehicle, you feel your body being pulled to one side of the car? Why cope with this minor inconvenience when it could be solved by expensive and elaborate machinery? Cars could have a hydraulic system that tilts the entire cabin of the car into each turn, while keeping
the wheels on the ground. Based on the speed of the car and the sharpness of the turn, an electronic system would determine the exact degree of tilt needed to neutralize the tiny g-force that would otherwise be experience by the driver. The feeling of driving such a car would be something like that of riding a motorcycle.
Mercedes F300
http://www.mercedes...es/f300lifejet.html
"The most striking feature of this research vehicle was its unique Active Tilt Control, which was developed specially for the F 300 Life Jet and allows it lean into corners." [angel, Apr 08 2005]
(???) Michelin Concept
http://www.autoindu...ews/news-578mambff9
"the CONCEPT leans into corners by up to 10 degrees like a motorcycle" [angel, Apr 08 2005]
The Carver
http://www.carver.nl/
Generally regarded as the best tilting 'car' yet. [wagster, Apr 08 2005]
Radical new suspension
http://www.shadetre...pension_systems.htm
Forget everything you know about vehicle suspensions, Mr. Bose has reinvented the wheel. [ato_de, Apr 10 2005]
CLEVER Research Vehicle
http://www.clever-p...design_sketches.htm
another tilting three-wheeled vehicle. [BJS, May 30 2006]
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Welcome to the HB. Good job on your first idea. My first got 6 votes against it. |
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Baked by Daimler Chrysler. Additionally there have been several other three-wheeled cars that lean into corners. See also the Michelin Concept, which is a four-wheeler. |
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Surely this product must be launched in Pisa. |
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Why not just seats on a pendulum? |
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<Why cope with this minor inconvenience when it could be solved by expensive and elaborate machinery?> |
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The word-to-halfbekery-wisdom density is enormous.
quassant pour vous mon chere! |
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wow, I actually liked reading it. |
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90's F1 Williams cars had an active suspension that kept the car level at all times for maximum aero efficiency. |
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At least your already baked idea won the F1 world championship before it was outlawed. |
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[Giblet] whipping gas's idea was the
opposite of this - to tilt the car into the
bend rather than keep it
level.
[+]But previously baked
in the infamous tilting trains, Shirley? |
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In order for the F1 to stay level it would have to lean into the turn, just not as much as the idea suggested. Still baked. |
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Errrr, no - to stay level, it would have to
resist the tendency for it to lean out of
the turn. Assuming, that is, that 'level'
means 'level'. Shirley? |
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I assumed "level" meant "level to the road," since cars tend to lean away from a turn, which is far less stable than one that counteracts that by leaning into it enough to be level. |
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Yes, and what I'm saying is that in order to stay level, it would have to "lean into the turn" so to speak enough to counteract the outer lean. Otherwise you'd just need rock hard shocks.
But I see what you mean. I didn't word it correctly, but I basically mean the same. I thought you were saying it'd have to have shocks that don't really do anything. |
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A car with this system would need a suspension travel of a few feet in order to completely change the direction of the "g-force" from horizontal to vertical in relation to the driver, except for at very low speeds. |
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How exactly would this leaning system work? |
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Baked by everybody up to and including Amtrak. There's lots of folks who've slapped together systems that do this (www.maxmatic.com), companies, and even Mother Earth News magazine, using pre-Microsoft technology. A damped pendulum operating a pneumatic system could operate the tilting mechanism, and even be tuned to have the car hunker down for acceleration and rare back for stops.
Bun for the idea, but there's lots of similarly smart people out there. |
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Excellent idea. It wold be like riding a bicycle. |
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