Re:Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept
by laichzeit0 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:55AM
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I drive a car with low clearance, but that Lamborghini is just ridiculously close to the ground. You’ll scrape the bumper just pulling out a regular drive way. It sure as hell will need to be “self healing” for someone to legitimately be driving that.
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Re:Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept
by bri3d on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:12AM
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Lamborghini have had "lifters" as an option (and now stock, I believe) on all their cars since the Diablo in the 1990s. It's a horrendously unreliable hydraulic damper extension system, but it does solve for that issue. Press a button and the front of the car rises 2-3in to clear bumps and especially dips.
Re:Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept
by lern_too_spel on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:29AM
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This doesn't work if the wheel wells hug around more than half the wheel and are fixed in place to the chassis. The real reason it's so low is that it's a concept not meant to be driven.
Re:Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept
by MrFoof on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:35PM
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I have a car as low as an Aventador, without a front-axle lift, and a similarly bad approach angle.
You don't take steep inclines head on. Period. You take them at an oblique angle, and get the closest wheel up first. It takes a few more seconds, but you don't scrape.
I've gone up into entrances without issue where I've seen stock Toyota Camrys (which have nearly 2 inches more ground clearance and a much better approach angle) scrape. Take your time and it's a non-issue. My car has a sacrificial portion of the front splitter that's cheap to replace if I were to scrape it, but it's so easy to not scrape it it'll be a long time (decade plus?) before I need to.
Re:Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept
by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:57PM
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Most of their concepts are like that; I wouldn't expect a model for sale to be that low.