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Post by horseguy on Jun 20, 2017 15:02:11 GMT
Torque vectoring is directing force in a specific direction or line. I was reading a car magazine about hybrids. Some have one gasoline engine that drives the front wheels and two electric motors, one for each rear wheel. This setup allows the car to be 4 wheel drive in an unusual way. The front wheels are pulling the car forward, as a horse would do with his fore legs. In a turn, the car's computer tells the outside rear wheel electric motor to help push the car around the turn. The result is front pull combined and balanced with rear outside push, which is very much like a horse would do using diagonals at the trot and the correct lead in the canter. Yes, cars now have leads.  |
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Post by Laura on Jun 20, 2017 19:54:53 GMT
That's pretty cool. Seems very efficient too.
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Post by horseguy on Jun 29, 2017 9:12:27 GMT
That's pretty cool. Seems very efficient too. I suspect that this automotive advancement has something to do with the current trend of robotic engineers studying insects, birds and other living creatures in order to better understand efficient movement. Putting power to the outside rear of a mass in forward motion in a bend is what we all do in establishing the inside lead that begins with the driving outside rear 1 beat of the canter stride. Horses have been using torque vectoring since the beginning of mammal time. I look forward to owning a vehicle someday that uses this inherent dynamic means of stability. Gaits: |
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