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Wind offset for car

Category: Software
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WHY NOT ? add a wind sensor to cars and use the imput (net direction and speed) to add a "bias" to the steering thus offset the wind force. The car CPU would have:

INPUT1. forward speed,2. current steering direction3. net wind speed and direction

OUTPUT1. Bias to steering to offset wind; this would allow "straight forward travel (or continue existing steering curve) AS-IF there was not wind.

ADVANTAGES.1. Sub-second response2. Able to apply "just enough" offset force.3. Able to change as vehicle or wind changes direction.

VALUE More value to drivers with A. Delayed reflexes (e.g. elderly /under influence) B. Lower upper body strength C. High anxity of driving in "storm" D. "high" profile vehicles (e.g. SUV) E. Force would based on wind ALONE, allowing driver to continue to steer and drive.

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How much wind does it take to make a car unstable? It is safer to get off the road in strong winds, and to get to shelter in a hurricane/tornado, right?

C2H6O, Aug 24 2006

This "sort of" exists already, in traction control systems that use accelerometers to measure the angular acceleration about the vertical axis of a vehicle beginning to skid. Counter-acting forces are automatically applied by the brakes, by the engine, or by a combination of the two.

Beaugrand, Aug 27 2006