Lift system made automatic?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Springfield TN
Lift system made automatic?
We know now that the C8 has an option engineered to lift itself over speed bumps, steep driveways and other imperfections at up to 25 mph, which is a great feature. (I just rebuilt the driveway at my new house to accommodate my C7.) We also know it has a memory feature that allows it to remember up to 1,000 road imperfections on your daily commute, or that you otherwise regularly encounter.
Could this device be made to work with sonar/radar so it would automatically find speed bumps and other obstacles and raise the car at lower speeds to go over them with no intervention from the driver at all? Also, couldn’t this system be engineered to work both automatically and from memory settings?
Could this device be made to work with sonar/radar so it would automatically find speed bumps and other obstacles and raise the car at lower speeds to go over them with no intervention from the driver at all? Also, couldn’t this system be engineered to work both automatically and from memory settings?
Last edited by quick04Z06; Aug 1, 2019 at 04:19 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Springfield TN
Rather amazed no one wants this lift system to be truly automatic rather than manually set to certain locations or operated by the driver in real time. If you are on the road or in a different part of town, then the manual settings will not be helpful
Last edited by quick04Z06; Aug 15, 2019 at 05:21 PM.
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We know now that the C8 has an option engineered to lift itself over speed bumps, steep driveways and other imperfections at up to 25 mph, which is a great feature. (I just rebuilt the driveway at my new house to accommodate my C7.) We also know it has a memory feature that allows it to remember up to 1,000 road imperfections on your daily commute, or that you otherwise regularly encounter.
Could this device be made to work with sonar/radar so it would automatically find speed bumps and other obstacles and raise the car at lower speeds to go over them with no intervention from the driver at all? Also, couldn’t this system be engineered to work both automatically and from memory settings?
Could this device be made to work with sonar/radar so it would automatically find speed bumps and other obstacles and raise the car at lower speeds to go over them with no intervention from the driver at all? Also, couldn’t this system be engineered to work both automatically and from memory settings?
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Melting Slicks
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From: Springfield TN
I would absolutely never want it to be automatic (other than by GPS), imagine you were on a track and going around a tight turn and the front sees the curb on the side of the track and decides to adjust for it! The only thought I have is if the cars could all share with each other where speed bumps or other places that require it to be lifted and share the information akin to how waze shares information. You would need much more than 1000 memory locations but that limitation seems arbitrary anyway (all it is is a database of GPS coordinates).
I just know if I took my car out of town and ended up in, say, New Orleans, a town I don’t drive that often, I would love to have an automatic setting so it would raise itself at low speed to clear hazards. That way I can pay attention to sightseeing without having to stare at the road all the time looking for hazards so I can push the manual lift button.
