Mercedes Magic Body Control

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Belatti
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Well, first of all, nice analogy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwML2PagbY[/youtube]

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The thing is the car anticipates road surface and reacts (below 130kph) accordingly. The feature may give mercedes the edge over the competition for these kind of cars. Persoanlly I would like to see the feature in a more "sporty" vechicle.
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I remember reading trials of previous active suspension cars "back in the day". One of the things that came out was that the lack of roll could be a bad thing when driving quickly. The roll is a very good way for the brain to keep a feel on how fast you're travelling - apparently when the roll is removed it becomes difficult to "feel" the car below you.

Active ride is great at lower speeds though where the tyre is not being pushed too hard. Then it gives a nice smooth ride.
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Kiril Varbanov
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I love the ad, it's real fun. Those type of commercials have been missing from the public domain recently.

Old read on the topic - http://www.caranddriver.com/news/merced ... tem-driven

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FW17
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Just_a_fan wrote:I remember reading trials of previous active suspension cars "back in the day". One of the things that came out was that the lack of roll could be a bad thing when driving quickly. The roll is a very good way for the brain to keep a feel on how fast you're travelling - apparently when the roll is removed it becomes difficult to "feel" the car below you.

Active ride is great at lower speeds though where the tyre is not being pushed too hard. Then it gives a nice smooth ride.

I think the G-forces is enough to keep the driver aware of how fast he is going

DaveW
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Just_a_fan wrote:I remember reading trials of previous active suspension cars "back in the day". One of the things that came out was that the lack of roll could be a bad thing when driving quickly. The roll is a very good way for the brain to keep a feel on how fast you're travelling - apparently when the roll is removed it becomes difficult to "feel" the car below you.
Reference?

I remember concerns being expressed before the event. I turned out, however, that the lack of transient response very much improved control. If roll was important, handling a car in the wet would be impossible....

I recall Elio de Angelis, driving the prototye Esprit flat out & sideways towards the Bridge at Snetterton commenting "look how easy it is to control". Yes, Elio....

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SectorOne
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Similar thing i saw today. It´s the low tech version but it works fairly similar.

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Still think a regular light would be as effective but cool nonetheless.
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Holm86
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This is humor :-D

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PQS8SFWNQw[/youtube]

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MOWOG
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Ah Hah Hah Hah! :lol: Good on ya, Jaguar! =D>
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