Magnetic Suspension System comes of age

[John - K5AWO]

Hot dern!



Now let's find a way to incorporate this on our stiff riding CTD's



http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,1761,a=134136,00.asp

 

[Billy Diesel]

I like this quote from the article:

The system can reduce body roll in a turn or even allow a car to bank into a turn, but research showed that passengers find the result discomforting because they expect some roll. (Studies done outside Bose found that banking makes drivers try to defy the laws of physics when turning, producing dangerous results. )

:-laf :-laf

 

[John - K5AWO]

yeah, I would find the insdie lean to be "normal". After all, isn't that what we do when we push our motorcycles harder??

 

[Sticks]

yeah, I would find the insdie lean to be "normal". After all, isn't that what we do when we push our motorcycles harder??

Yeah, but we also get more tire on the road that way.



Amount of tread touching the road in a straight line II

Amount of tread touching the road in a hard corner I I

Nevermind the fact that in corners we are also adding side thrust in the direction of the corner, which cars can't do.

The system can reduce body roll in a turn or even allow a car to bank into a turn, but research showed that passengers find the result discomforting because they expect some roll. (Studies done outside Bose found that banking makes drivers try to defy the laws of physics when turning, producing dangerous results. )

Yup. You can only change the vector of mass so much at any given velocity. Keeping the car level is the same principle of the sway bars and racing suspension. Now we have to start thinking about sticky tires.



Car tread in a straight line I I

Car tread in a hard corner I I

Now what would be really neat is a 1000# weight just below and forward of the center of gravity for the vehicle that transfers from side to side when cornering (READ - in a hard left turn, the weight moves to the left )

 

[Paychk]

http://automobilemag.com/news/0410_bose/