A stretched motor vehicle has a stability control system 2 adapted to function after the stretching by reducing the value of the steering angle, as obtained from a steering wheel 7, signalled to stability control system 2 through comparing the vehicle steering angle before and after stretching, or of typically-equivalent versions of one or both vehicles, when executing the same turning manoeuvres as one another, in particular turning circles of the same diameter. Suitably, the comparison is expressed as a ratio between steering angles for three circles at quarter, half and three-quarters lock of an unstretched vehicle. In one example, the reduced steering angle is signalled to an anti-lock braking module 3 of the stability-control system 2, and may be derived by reduction gearing 9 coupled to vehicle steering input shaft 6 ahead of a steering-angle sensor 5 or through an electronic convertor unit (10, Figure 3).
Stretched motor vehicles
2016-09-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Tema Archive | 1976
Online Contents | 2013
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