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Posted by hipstomp | 3 Sep 2010
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L.A.-based designer Charles Pyott's been getting lots of blog love lately for his portable Linos record player concept, above; another lesser-known project of his worth checking out is the DAWS (Dynamically Augmenting Wheel System, below).
Pyott studied the way motorcycles corner by leaning into turns and came up with a rather radical concept to translate this performance improvement into cars: A segmented wheel that "parallelograms" into turns, providing even contact with the pavement while shifting laterally.
Check out the rest of Pyott's book on Coroflot.
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Lovely rendering of the record player, but sadly that concept is already reality: http://superbizzee.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Yes, nice renderings on the new wheel concept too. Sadly they reflect a nearly zero knowledge on wheel and car dynamics, and a misunderstood concept of center of gravity
@Sam.
I don't understand why you say 'Sadly that concept is already reality'.
Firstly if good concepts are already reality, that's not sad, rather marvelous.
Secondly, The styling and some smaller details, like the power button. At the very least, it's a stylistic update which could make this concept relevant again (perhaps).
Anyway, good job.
I'm a little confused by the "performance increase" here. This isn't changing the actual contact patch of the tire, it is just shifting it from right to left under the car. The tire would still roll over and have a reduced contact patch in a corner unless camber is introduced to section that is contacting the road.
Wow you're right. I can't tell which one I like more. I'm kind of leaning towards the 1983 one. They have a really cool style even for today.
Ooooo fancy free body diagrams, this guy must know what he's doing!