Wow! That Ford Gyron is the coolest thing. I kept waiting for George Jetsen
to step into it. On the other hand, the Litmotors website is the most
irritating web page I've seen in a long time.
Charlie
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Some time ago I was introduced to a late 19th century invention that
> captured my attention: A monorail train that stood upright by way of a pair
> of counter-rotating gyros:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
>
> The physics are terribly simple, the counter-rotating gyros
> overcoming the precession when in a turn. The Russians came up with a
> 4-passenger touring car, and there were a number of other experiments with
> what became generally known as a "gyrocar":
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocar
>
> In the late 1950s Ford developed a prototype 2-passenger car, which
> had problems with the amount of time it took the gyros to come up to speed:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Gyron
>
> Now I learned on an evening news programme that an American company
> has developed a new gyrocar:
>
> http://litmotors.com/
>
> They seem to be promoting it as a motorcycle, but that matters
> little. What's interesting is that they are reviving a 100+ year old
> technology and reducing it to practice.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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