Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Automotive Equivalent of Over-Engineering Absurdity

When cars corner, the shifting of the center of gravity will affect a wheel's road holding capabilities, thus suspensions comes in a multitude of camber adjustments and in ways of 4 point or 5 point control arms.

Now some company decides that maintaining camber adjustments could be a hassle, thus coming up with wheels with individual shifting panels that forms up the entire curvature of the wheel that could shift in and out during cornering, adjusting the center gravity of wheels.

Which is said to provide better traction and reduce maintenance on cambers. ERM... how about stones and dusts that got into the rails of these shifting stuffs. Over Engineering Absurdity? Certainly.