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Electromagnetic Suspension System

Posted by michael on from the low-rider dept.

chuckgrosvenor writes "Every automotive suspension has two goals: passenger comfort and vehicle control. Unfortunately, these goals are in conflict. Two much comfort, and the car rolls and pitches a lot, too much control and you feel every bump. BOSE has found the happy medium by using electromagnetic motors, power amplifiers, & computer control algorithms to even out the road, while still feeling connected to it. Check the quicktime movies to see two different cars stay level while they go through cornering exercises." Reader gatekeep writes "Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation and MIT professor and alumnus, has recently unveiled a new electromagnetic car suspension system. It's said to have taken 24 years to develop. There's only minor technical details available so far, but the author of this piece describes seeing the system allow the test vehicle to jump over obstacles in its path!"

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  1. Here He Comes! by elmegil · · Score: 5, Funny
    the author of this piece describes seeing the system allow the test vehicle to jump over obstacles in it's path!

    Mach 5! Yeah!

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  2. *sigh* by TWX · · Score: 3, Funny


    How long before someone decides to ask Slashdot how to add this to an existing car...

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    1. Re:*sigh* by stubear · · Score: 4, Funny

      Add this to an existing car? They'll be asking how they cn make this themselves from off the shelf parts and old stereo systems, all running Linux of course.

  3. Old news by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    In one final display that left onlookers speechless yesterday, the company showed how the suspension system can be coaxed into jumping -- yes, jumping -- over obstacles in its path.

    This is nothing new. The Mach 5 had this in 1966.

    This "new" system doesn't even have a kid and a monkey in the trunk, let alone make the "ch-ch-ch-ch" sound.

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    1. Re:Old news by Mr.+Hankey · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's not _that_ hard to get a kid, and the monkey's an add-on option these days.

      http://trunkmonkeyad.com/

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  4. I wonder if... by shfted! · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... one could route the bass frequency from one's car stereo into the suspension to get that extra bass feel?

    It would sure beat doing the brake-gas tap dance to headbang in sequence with the music while driving :D

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    1. Re:I wonder if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You, sir, are ghetto.

    2. Re:I wonder if... by SpookyFish · · Score: 2, Funny

      LOL, there's a teenage memory for sure!

      Although with a 5.0 mustang 'twas just a downshift and gas tap dance, no brake needed... the stereo did need to be loud enough to drown out the rattles tho ;)

    3. Re:I wonder if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      .. one could route the bass frequency from one's car stereo into the suspension to get that extra bass feel?

      Sorry, this is Bose we're talking about here. There is no bass.

  5. Re:Coil Over by slickwillie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see - my M-B ML320 battery went dead on a Saturday morning and I was without a car for 4 days. I replaced the battery immediately, and the car started up but it refused to accelerate. I had to have it towed to the dealer on Monday and got it back Tuesday afternoon.

    How far will you be able to drive when your Bose Suspension computer gets confused? Give me analog until they get right.

  6. Re:Not me... by buddha42 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I want no part of it, because facts are facts, and the more high-tech, the more problems there will be.
    When I die crashing my hoverbike because I was pulling 3G's and one of those newfangled e-lec-tronics failed, I will die a much happier man than if we'd listened to you, mister "hold it right here this has gone too far, back in the good old days we just used mechanics and we liked it."
  7. Re:24 years to develop by zurmikopa · · Score: 2, Funny

    24 years, huh? Well, now we know how long grad students can stay in school.

  8. Re:Aftermarket by bsartist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay guys, soviet Russia no longer exists, get over it.

    In Soviet Russia, you no longer exist! ;-)

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