I don’t mean take a knife and cut it into eight parts but instead follow the design that our friend Charlie has in mind for us. He has devised the Dynamically Augmenting Wheel System or simply DAWS. His aim was to design a wheel system that would allow a car to shift its center of gravity without losing its traction footprint.
DAWS is kind of inspired by a motorcycle wheel. Lemme explain, a motorcycle wheel allows you to shift or roll your body into a turn giving the bike improved maneuverability and is accomplished by having rounded wheels. This also implies that a bike wheel has a “decreased footprint size when compared to a car wheel and sacrifices traction hurting acceleration, braking and turning speed.”
DAWS essentially features eight segments that are guided on a liner bearing at the hub the wheel can shift the entire vehicle without decreasing footprint size. The motion is kinda similar to our foot movement than a conventional wheel.
Do check out the animation version here, its right at the bottom of the page.
Designer: Charles Pyott
it’s pretty retarded
it won’t do anything except break
go back to school and try to learn some physics the second time around
Unfortunately, this completely overlooks the issue of camber change as the body rolls in the turn and as the suspension moves through its range of motion.
This also overlooks the amount of work that pneumatic tires do in absorbing loads before they get to the rim. To use solid tires as he has here, the rim elements would have to be so heavy it would be unusable.
I expect that there would also be problems keeping the sliding elements working smoothly for very long in the dirty road envirnoment.
No. That’s not how motorcycle tires/wheels work. And how motorcycles corner has almost nothing to do with the way cars corner. The phsyics are so wildly different it’s just inane to (try to) make an analogy.
Also, on a bike, there’s a LARGER contact patch during cornering.
I need to go carve some canyons now.
well, well, well aint SOME OF YOU a nasty piece of work,,who the f. are you to call me names,,..you people are not profesionals. I came here to leave a message for the designer of those wheels, and not for the likes of you, I am glad you don´t work for me, I would not be happy if I found out any of them behaved in a disrespectful way in a business site, for this aint any chat room, where you are bored and start to insult people to entertain yourself, shame on you,..I HOPE YOU ARE WORKING FOR YOURSELF, FOR I WONDER WHAT YOUR BOSS WOULD SAY, knowing how unprofesional you are conducting yourselves on a site that is about business, although saying that I don´t think your clients would like it either for that matter..I got better things to do than wasting my time with the likes of you people.,,
Cool! Such rates soon cars to fly will begin…)))
perfect!!
what perfect are you see here? not credible this new wheels
what perfect are you see here? not credible this new wheels
very interesting.
Would this not be like constantly driving across the warning strips on the edge of the road? A constant droning caused by the perpendicular slices of the wheel may drive you bonkers.
This new design will give the car the glide since physically speaking, it can decrease the resistance of the wheel to the road because the wheel will adjust itself to be more flexible in turning. The problem is, i think this kind of wheel will just be appropriate for lightweight automobiles since it will be air-less, and also, with the wheel being split in eights, I think that decrease the support of the wheel for the car.
This new design will give the car the glide since physically speaking, it can decrease the resistance of the wheel to the road because the wheel will adjust itself to be more flexible in turning. The problem is, i think this kind of wheel will just be appropriate for lightweight automobiles since it will be air-less, and also, with the wheel being split in eights, I think that decrease the support of the wheel for the car.
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And it does not fall apart during the second turnover?