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INNOVATION INFLATION? NEW ON THE STREET: NOT AS MUCH-AND A LOT MORE- THAN COMMONLY THOUGHT.
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
The car of the future circa 1958 used a 225-hp gas-turbine engine with a small 10-hp piston engine to drive accessories. It looked like a jet fighter, with a double-bubble cockpit and fins bristling in all directions. Instead of a steering wheel, it had a joystick controller set between occupants and could be driven from either side.
Before you laugh, it also had antilock braking, cruise control and air conditioning, all rare in 1958 production cars. General Motors' Firebird III displayed at Motorama that fall also had all-independent suspension, four-wheel disc brakes and guidance using a wire buried in the pavement to steer the ...
- 4-wheel steering - here now for all-out performance.
- Magazine article from: Popular Science Shuldiner, Herbert February 1, 1986 700+ words
4-WHEEL STEERING -- here now for all-out performance Streaking down a...The switch, of course, changed the vehicle from two-wheel steering to four-wheel steering. The car is a test-bed for a production model Mazda will...
- Delphi's New Four-Wheel Steering System Featured on GM Concept Truck at Detroit...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 12, 2000 700+ words
...innovative QUADRASTEER(TM) four-wheel steering system is featured on General Motor...QUADRASTEER by Delphi is an electronic four-wheel steering system that enables vehicles to significantly...trailering. Delphi's unique four-wheel steering system electronically controls the...
- Four-wheel steering transforms a hard-to-handle vehicle.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Ulrich, Lawrence August 24, 2001 700+ words
...towing or hauling. GMC sees four-wheel steering as a game-changing truck technology...and only manufacturer to offer four-wheel steering on a lighttruck. While Chrysler Group...s competitors are looking at four-wheel steering for their own trucks. Quadrasteer...
- Delphi Introduces Innovative Four-Wheel-Steering System at SAE 2000.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 2000 700+ words
...introduces its QUADRASTEER(TM) four-wheel steering system at the Society of Automotive...QUADRASTEER is an electronic four-wheel steering system that enables full-size vehicles...It combines conventional front-wheel steering with an electrically powered rear...
- Four-wheel steering.
- Magazine article from: Popular Science McCosh, Dan February 1, 1987 700+ words
Four-wheel steering Japanese auto makers scrambling tobe the first to put active four-wheel steering [PS cover story, Feb. '86] into...Mazda say theirtests indicate four-wheel steering improves performance in slalom courses...
- Four-wheel steering makes pickups more maneuverable.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 19, 2002 700+ words
...late 1980s, and early 1990s: Four-wheel steering, meaning that the rear wheels steer...But when Honda introduced four-wheel steering on the 1988 Honda Prelude, the difference...while you could tell that the four-wheel steering was working, tests suggested that...
- Steering into the future. (four wheel steering)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report August 10, 1987 700+ words
...smaller. A Prelude with two-wheel steering has a turning circle of 34...the same model with four-wheel steering turns in 31.5 feet. On the...swerve. But with the four-wheel steering engaged, the fishtailing vanishes...
- Round the bend. (four-wheel steering) (Science and Technology)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 6, 1989 700+ words
Four-wheel steering Round the bend JAPAN'S inventive...their latest novelty--four-wheel steering (4WS)--has delayed the adoption...1987 when Mazda launched its four-wheel-steering 626 model in America. Most pundits...
