BOSE Active Suspension

This is not something new, in fact it has been around since 2004, the reason we decided to take readers to another round of 'reminder' is merely due we're still waiting for it.

What do they mean by Active Suspensions? Our normal suspensions are actually Passive Suspensions, where they react to the surrounding, they react to the humps and ditches where the car literally 'falls' into potholes, and relying entirely on how the 'fall' is coped with in terms of comfort.

The softer the suspension is set, the lesser the impact was felt, the other way round your intestines pressed against each other; think of this as dropping a metal box with an egg inside, or dropping a cushion with an egg placed within.

However cars doesn't only need to cater with potholes, cars need to be able to handle well, this calls for harder suspension, where the car would roll less while attempting corners, enabling the car to quickly switch direction for the next opposite lock.

Traditionally everyone has been trying their very best to accommodate, to stay in between to balance out the car's intended characteristics based on the market's preferences, that's the reason why most American cars are wallowy and comfortable, where many European makes used to set up the suspensions harder.

The usual 'solutions' involved Adjustable Suspensions where the hardness and height can be manually adjusted, or pre-selected driving characterics that allows the driver to select Soft or Hard rebound rates of the suspension, which is a never ending story until Audi came up with the magnetic ride suspension where a very special liquid was filled into the car's suspension and the viscosity of the liquid can be altered from different voltage of electricity applied.

BOSE, a maker of high end acoustics sound systems had originated this idea of an Active Suspension way back in year 1980.

It took them 24 years to finalize what they visualized. Amazing.

The BOSE Active Suspension does what it says, it pre-empts the computer for road surroundings, providing an algorithim for the computer to 'extend' the suspension to cater for potholes, hence the BOSE Active Suspension literally predicts and pushed itself into any potholes to keep the car leveled.

The results are obvious. Check it out.









Check out the video for this excellent innovation