Over on Hooniverse’s retro tech-obsessed sister site, Atomic Toasters, we look at a gyroscopically stabilized car from the flower power era. Head over and enjoy!
Gyro-Stabilized Car of Awesome
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6 responses to “Gyro-Stabilized Car of Awesome”
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Maybe this piece of vaporware http://litmotors.com/c-1/
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Someone called "Thrustcycle" is working on a gyro stabilized electric vehicle that uses the gyro flywheel to generate power for the wheels, and just for kicks throw in a KERS to boost it back up again.
Unfortunately it's rear wheel steering. One too many oddball features.
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That is a phallus with training wheels.
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Don't forget the windshield.
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There was a write-up about it the other day on the Hemmings Blog. Too bad the gyro disappeared.
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I'm with Thrustcycle. We're reconstructing the gyro to function as it was intended. All of our projects now are front wheeled steered. We only did the rear wheel steered to show that we could solve some of the problems associated with rws.
This is a rarely seen video of the Gyro-X in action:
[youtube d6NDOAlpVIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6NDOAlpVIA youtube]
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