Perhaps the most interesting fact about Nissan's Tokyo Motor Show-bound Land Glider concept car is the that the Japanese automaker says that the two-seater electric model "should not be regarded as a mere design study" and that it "gives a clear direction to how a future small car from Nissan could look in congested cities." Then again, "clear direction" could be translated in many different ways...In any case, the ultra slim Land Glider measures just 3,100 mm in length, 1,100mm in width and 1,415mm in height with a wheelbase of 2,180mm and can seat two passengers in a tandem layout.
The four wheeler concept is driven by two electric motors in the rear that are powered by lithium-ion batteries mounted beneath the floor. The concept features steering-by-wire and a lean capability when cornering - just like a motorcycle. The company claims that the vehicle can tilt through corners up to an angle of 17 degrees.
All of this is done automatically as the Land Glider employs sensors for vehicle speed, steering angle and yaw rate to instantly calculate the tilt angle necessary to "negotiate" a corner.
Other highlights include a car-robotics style crash avoidance system that utilizes special sensors mounted in the body to detect other vehicles or obstacles and steer the Land Glider away from them.
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looks cool, I would by one if they are going to make it...
To Nissan Motors Japan: Build it. Please! Then sell it, I'll be your first customer. It's a perfectly practical and safer alternative to motorcycles. Excellent overall design concept,though it would be nice if there's an extra seat behind, for the wife or girlfriend,you know.
Coming down a twisty mountain pass clipping corners at a ferocious pace on the edge of disaster, when.....
"It was reported that Jonn Kuhl of Oswego Place was found yesterday at the bottom of Dead man's canyon, in his destroyed Nissan 'Glider'.
A later examination of the 'Glider' by the NHST, revealed that the automatic electronic vehicle dynamics control system had failed."
A spokesman for Nissan said that, "Nissan is looking into the problem".
Technology is great when it works, and it opens up new design possibilities.. How ever it has inherent risks as the first canon makers no doubt found out.
3Deuce27
Love it! Would buy it if it were for sale at the Nissan showrooms today.
The fake bit of someone crashing one is as insipid as its author.
3Deuche27 -
According to your logic, motorcycles and bikes should be banned from the road....
"Love it! Would buy it if it were for sale at the Nissan showrooms today."
The mating cry of the easily impressed and the uncritical.
Joe!
How is that?
"Most of the time we 'never know who were talking to" - aikiv
I own over 60 Motorcycles Joe, and have just started building them too.
My comment in no way infers that position.
So explain please?
3Deuce27
3Douche27,
"I own over 60 Motorcycles Joe, and have just started building them too."
Are they all Harleys? Because you need about 60 Harleys to keep one Harley the road; 59 of them are for parts.
Geez! I was just cruising along, minding my own business, and I hooked another one.
Joe!
Don't become predictable, and though it's hard for you, but please stay on subject.
Since you can't 'Logically' explain the reason behind your original comment regarding my post. And since your cognitive abilities prevent you from figuring it out. Let me explain a bit, to help you and others so afflicted.
First off, I embrace leading edge technology, and like this 'Glider' concept.
The point of the story is about the reliance on technology to enable a vehicle to do things that it couldn't manage without it, and if that technology should fail at the most inopportune time in a critical dynamic situation.
The technology referred to is the electronic vehicle dynamics facilitator or brain. Should it and it's redundancy fail at a critical time you could become the news. Not something anybody wants to wake up to, should you wake up.
We can build flight management systems that can eliminate the flight crew, but even with triple redundancy we still have to have a flight crew for back up, just in case, and to assure the flying public. Failure of the take-off, flight, and landing computer is not the same as the flight dynamics computer. Should the TOFL computer fail, the plane is still flyable and the pilots can continue operations.
In the case of the 'Glider', it's managed dynamics allow it to do what it does, if that fails, the vehicle might not be controllable at the limits by it's operator. The reason for my little story.
When we rely on computers to enable safe vehicle dynamics we are stepping out to the edge.
And Joe, while 'Logic' isn't something we share in common, we can find some rapport in our in opinions on Harleys. I don't own any for reasons that are decades old now.
And Joe, your Sophomoric attempt at disabusing my handle is evidence of a sand box mentality. Do yourself a favor and grow up.
3Deuce27
it looks much safer than riding a motorbike... hopefully it will cost less than 3000 usd, it would reduce road accidents tremendously in many many third world countries - a real great invention.
-nV
T04B
It;s not a concept car It's a carike, part car,part tricycle. Help my prawn escaped and in running loose in Tokyo.
Prawn?..... Or Squid?
3Deuce27
"It;s not a concept car It's a carike, part car,part tricycle."
No, it IS a concept car, and just becasue you can make up horrible new words like 'carike' don't make this one by extension. Explain where this thing even resembles a tricycle, which I might add, doesn't even have 'K' in it!
"First off, I embrace leading edge technology, and like this 'Glider' concept."
So you just blindly take the technology as is, declare it as 'cutting edge', and never criticaly challenge, analize, or otherwise test it to see if it's fit to replace older technology?
If this kind of car is to take of, it need to meet or exceed the present standards that cars have today. Just because it leans into turns doesn't mean it's game changer; it needs to accel in more that just one area.
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