Lane Motor Museum explains their 1967 Gyro-X
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2019
- The brainchild of Alex Tremulis, famous stylist and Automobile Hall of Fame inductee, and Thomas Summers, a gyroscope expert, the Gyro-X is a two-wheeled, gyroscopically-stabilized prototype vehicle constructed in 1967. Proposed as a possible solution for future transportation, the two-wheeled vehicle provided many thought-provoking ideas for revolutionizing transportation.
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i have a MIGHTY NEED!
Oh lord. I can't imagine what kind of video you would make regular. "You've been screwing up too much in church" still haunts me.
I can't wait for the Jason Drives of this!
SHOWWW FANTÁSTICO BELLISSIMO.
Some of the footage is from Jared Owen's video
I saw the old film reels of the one they nicknamed "the cigar car." Maybe it was the same one, the film was black and white and it wobbled side to side as it drove around like this one. As I remember the story, Tremulis and others (investors?) tried to squeeze Summers out of the car company. That group couldn't get the car to stabilize. Later, Summers came back into the picture and did finally stabilize the vehicle. But it was too late and all funding was withdrawn, the company went bankrupt.
Too bad the US Forest Service destroyed all of the nice gyro-stabilized, motorized, 3 wheel, trail donkeys Summers designed for them. They were SUPER stable! The 1,500 (hazy on that number) pound payload sat on top of the two-foot-wide, nine-foot-long, about four-foot-high, vehicle and the operator stood on a platform in the back with two handle yokes to steer the single front wheel. In the demo reel, one man ran down the hill and tried to push it over. But the vehicle just barely budged and went back to its normal position!
Soon after they started service, Congress passed a law that made it illegal to operate motorized vehicles on park trails. You would think the USFS would get a pass. Those things were so sweet!
Summers was a real genius.
I wonder if Floyd is still around and still has those old super 8 movies?
Not all of the 3 wheel, trail donkeys Summers designed have been destroyed. The Lane Motor Museum has one their collection.
@@RPRosen-ki2fk oh, wow! Thanks for that. I'll look for it.
So very cool!!!!
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Great work to rebuild the machine from almost nothing. It's amazing to see it working although as you say it has some technical challenges to the design. By the time you add the weight and power of the gyro and actuator the gains you save by having only 2 wheels are possibly lost but some people are still trying to do it.
You may wish to compare this to the Brennan Monorail ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail ) which is the same thing, only running on a rail.
I believe the Brennan system used a simpler, passive system, which was more massive but used fewer moving parts.
Wikipedia article is good and explains that a gyro balance system must have an active control system to work. His system may have been simpler but it was not passive it used a pneumatic servo.
One HUGE difference between this and Brennan's monorail, was Gyro-X only used ONE gyro and the train used TWO gyros.
@@RPRosen-ki2fk I understand, but the systems were similar and accomplished the same thing.
Was the aerodynamic drag coefficient ( cd) ever calculated for this car? or measured?
Hey, you stole that video from Jared Owen!
Thanks but I actually did this job for the museum and they allowed me to post a modified version of the video on my channel.
Nothing was stolen here - thanks for the heads up though
Huh, I just found the pack mule at this video th-cam.com/video/6IKHEsJ5nG4/w-d-xo.html at timestamp 7 minutes 45 seconds. Check it out.
More tech that "they" will never let us have. Power & control of the masses.
It's a bloody gyroscope mate, not exactly rocket science.
@@nonegone7170Then why isn't it being mass produced then? Also, I'm not your "mate."
2 wheel car -- tire lobby not Happy -
Dear Merciful God, I pray to thee that electric cars end up being two wheeled upright with a flywheel like this and cost like 300 bucks. I never asked you for anything please this one thing please. Before I die.