On Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:55:33 UTC+1, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 25/08/2020 19:28, tabbypurr wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 August 2020 09:21:39 UTC+1, Clive Arthur wrote:

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Google away, there have been a handful of gyro cars, some filmed. Eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCVn4EByfI

That sort of makes the point. Barely jogging speed, rocking around. A
fun toy. Even the later track test shows the driver really fighting
with the steering.

Schilovsky's vehicle was an impractical novelty too, it demonstrated a
principle.

It was a demonstrator for his proposed railway. He drove it around London, it worked.

After a fashion. 'Around London' is a bit of a stretch, and driven
slowly and gingerly according to contemporaneous reports. I think the
Schilovsky vehicle, in addition to the gyros, used moving mass to help
balance, maybe that was later. He only had the one gyro, so cornering
was rather asymmetric.

(Gyro bearing seizing is a non-issue from the safety perspective if you
have two.)

The 2 are connected together. If one stops, so does the other. If that didn't happen, things would be much worse!

In which vehicle are the two connected? Not Lit, not Brennan. That's
one of the safety features, if a gyro fails you still have the one to
hold you steady enough for a while.

There's one of Brennan's prototypes in the York railway museum, maybe
about the size of a very small car.

Such a shame, but it's been shown to be inadequate for practical use
several times over the last century. Almost there, but never quite.

This guy has a lot of fun with them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYXJjRfgTM

it seems to work in that demo


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