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Old 05-25-2021, 09:49 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I am imagining a car, a bit like an ekranoplan, but never leaves the ground so the wheels always drive the car. Steering angle sensors, wheel slip sensors and brake pedal sensors [do stuff].
Further to Permalink #13, the platform to test this would be a tadpole with front-wheel drive, torque vectoring and autonomous control [ready].

The only vehicle I know of that fits the bill would be the Arcimoto FUV or Roadster. Any smoll light plane could provide the empennage. The hard part would be the software development. It would require Segway-like balancing on the two front wheels, plus the predictive AI.
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