alt Hacker NewsWhile cool as a shower thought, in reality, having a 1200HP car jump and go airborne while you're swerving to avoid a pothole is just about the last thing you want it to be doing. Traction control is pretty good these days, but not that good that you want to lose all traction at 120km/h (75mph, the speed shown in the video).
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If you're swerving in that car and clip any portion of that pothole, you're almost certainly going to lose control anyway. And if you've swerved around the pothole successfully, there's nothing for the suspension to have to jump. ;-)
> While cool as a shower thought, in reality, having a 1200HP car jump and go airborne while you're swerving to avoid a pothole is just about the last thing you want it to be doing.
Surely the system takes cornering into account. Having a suspension that can use predictive motions to compensate for a pothole would ideally produce better handling by minimizing the disruption of a pothole imparting a massive disturbance to the vehicle.
Even though they're the cream of the crop of a country of over a billion people, those silly engineers at BYD don't know what they're doing. We'd all be better off if they took tips about this problem they've spent years developing from random guy on the internet.
Which is exactly why you want that suspension.
Both this and the Bose linear actuator one lift just the wheel that needs lifting, just enough to clear the obstacle, keeping everything perfectly steady, it's incredible.
The fact that it can also do silly jumps for marketing reasons is a different topic.