Currently Engines already crash. It is called the timing belt. And since most engines are designed so that if the timing belt goes, the Valves crash into the cylinders. Well aluminum head don't like the valves being bent so they get destroyed and you engine is not a happy camper.
With electrically controlled valves you can have them so that a crashed state it a closed state and they don't have to get crushed. You can also have it open that valves a little when you start your car like a decompression on a motor cycle so you starter can get the engine spinning faster before it starts.
I would buy one in a second. Even though I love you VW TDI diesel.
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Currently Engines already crash. It is called the timing belt. And since most engines are designed so that if the timing belt goes, the Valves crash into the cylinders. Well aluminum head don't like the valves being bent so they get destroyed and you engine is not a happy camper.
With electrically controlled valves you can have them so that a crashed state it a closed state and they don't have to get crushed. You can also have it open that valves a little when you start your car like a decompression on a motor cycle so you starter can get the engine spinning faster before it starts.
I would buy one in a second. Even though I love you VW TDI diesel.