Motor vehicles – Including one or more ski-like or runner members – With at least one surface-engaging propulsion element
Patent
1985-01-28
1987-11-10
Love, John J.
Motor vehicles
Including one or more ski-like or runner members
With at least one surface-engaging propulsion element
180141, 180142, 180143, 280 91, B62D 504, B62D 506
Patent
active
047051302
ABSTRACT:
A method of controlling an automotive vehicle is disclosed whereby a steering characteristic of the vehicle is automatically adjustable to a feature of the driver's steering the vehicle. The feature of the driver's steering the vehicle is detected in terms of a driver's technique or habit in manipulating a steering wheel or a motion characteristic of the vehicle such as a yaw rate or a lateral acceleration resulting from a driver's manipulating the steering wheel. A pair of steerable road wheels, such as a pair of front road wheels, are steered through an angle which is proportioned to an angle through which the steering wheel is manually turned at a ratio which is variable with variation in the feature of the driver's steering the vehicle.
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Fukunaga Yukio
Irie Namio
Kuroki Junsuke
Nakamura Kenji
Shibahata Yasuji
Hill Mitchell J.
Love John J.
Nissan Motor Co,. Ltd.
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