Automobile

Steering an Automobile Contents 1 Introduction 2 Wheeled vehicle steering – 2.1 Basic geometry 2.1 Basic geometry – 2.2 Rack and pinion, recirculating ball, worm and sector 2.2 Rack and pinion, recirculating ball, worm and sector – 2.3 Power steering 2.3 Power steering – 2.4 Speed Sensitive Steering 2.4 Speed Sensitive Steering – 2.5 Four-wheel steering 2.5 Four-wheel steering Active four-wheel steering – Production cars with active four wheel steering Production cars with active four wheel steering – Crab steering Crab steering Passive rear wheel steering – 2.6 Articulated steering 2.6 Articulated steering – 2.7 Rear wheel steering 2.7 Rear wheel steering – 2.8 Steer-by-wire 2.8 Steer-by-wire – 2.9 Safety 2.9 Safety – 2.10 Cycles 2.10 Cycles

First Question? Always!

Your Guess is as good as mine. When students interact with me for the first time to study a course ; I normally begin with a question. What should be this Question?

Can you think?

Thinking They would all answer. YES. This is always a healthy, positive, good sign. A great philosopher(Descartes) once said” I think, so I am”. My next question, however, gets a mixed response, always. What is this next question?

How will you define THINKING?

Thinking Modern psychologists do not agree on any one definition of the term, but all agree that thinking is a mental activity involving the use of symbols, such as words or images.

Thinking The development of automation, especially in regard to automatic control systems, has led some researchers to claim that the term thinking can be properly applied to the activity of such machines as computers.

Let’s think Using two Cans of water with capacity 3 and 5 liters, can we have exactly 4 liters of water in the Can of 5 liters. Initially the Cans are empty. There is no shortage of water. You can not use any measuring device.

A Riddle Let’s Be a thinker Fill the 5 litre can from the tap Empty the 5 litre can into the 3 litre can - leaving 2 liters in the 5 litre can. Pour away the contents of the 3 litre can. Fill the 3 litre can with the 2 liters from the 5 litre can - leaving 2 liters in the 3 litre can. Fill the 5 litre can from the tap. Fill the remaining 1 litre space in the 3 litre can from the 5 litre can. Leaving 4 liters in the 5 litre can.

Two Parts of Mind 4.7 * 4.7 Write all the steps to solve this problem. How many steps?

Alternate Solution How many steps?

Am I a thinker? Yes! I am a thinker, so I am. My last 20 years. 15 Years before that. 35 years of being a thinker. The lesson. I learned from my teachers. I pass on to you.

Do we need Thinkers. Probable answer should be. Yes! Why?

Out of this time. Because! They remember their past. Know their present. They can think out of the present and into the future.