No, but don't you see? There's a spinning gyroscope INSIDE the wheel hub that helps provide lateral stability. If the gyro is spinning fast enough, the device will have extreme difficulty tipping to either side at all, allowing the rear/front stability. (View the flash animation, and then visit your local children's museum and play with the bicycle tires you can hold while spinning)
This leads to the assumption then when turning the vehicle, the gryos slow down allowing the device to lean, and that leads to the question: How does it know if my lean is to turn, or if I'm falling over and corrections should be made in the gyros?
You are right about one thing, though. I don't see a physical way for it to rotate the tire beneath the rider the one way does on a unicycle. Is leaning the only way to turn the device? Even at low speed? Low speed turns would require more lean to turn the vehicle, and if more lean is allowed by the gyro, there will eventually be a point reached where the gyros can not recover, regardless of how fast they spin.
Remeber! Gyros can be used either as active stability devices or sensors. They arent' limited to one or the other.
The only difference is that one is encapsulated in the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" style, and the other has the standard "I'm the whitehouse.gov site" style. The information contained (except for the links in the container setting) are identical.
Am I the only one who bothered to actually look at those links, rather than just quickly click on them?
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No, but don't you see? There's a spinning gyroscope INSIDE the wheel hub that helps provide lateral stability. If the gyro is spinning fast enough, the device will have extreme difficulty tipping to either side at all, allowing the rear/front stability. (View the flash animation, and then visit your local children's museum and play with the bicycle tires you can hold while spinning)
This leads to the assumption then when turning the vehicle, the gryos slow down allowing the device to lean, and that leads to the question: How does it know if my lean is to turn, or if I'm falling over and corrections should be made in the gyros?
You are right about one thing, though. I don't see a physical way for it to rotate the tire beneath the rider the one way does on a unicycle. Is leaning the only way to turn the device? Even at low speed? Low speed turns would require more lean to turn the vehicle, and if more lean is allowed by the gyro, there will eventually be a point reached where the gyros can not recover, regardless of how fast they spin.
Remeber! Gyros can be used either as active stability devices or sensors. They arent' limited to one or the other.
They isn't, and never will be singular in the English language. It's a common misconception. Don't believe me, get an english degree...
No, look again. All three are the same.
The only difference is that one is encapsulated in the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" style, and the other has the standard "I'm the whitehouse.gov site" style. The information contained (except for the links in the container setting) are identical.
Am I the only one who bothered to actually look at those links, rather than just quickly click on them?