Quote Originally Posted by aosborn View Post
2. Steering feel could be taylored with adjustments in preassure and flow.
What you get is simulated feel, which you can use to add some effort but which won't tell you what's happening down at the contact patches. I understand that this may be a complete non-issue for many or even most drivers in normal daily driving. But I think it would play rather poorly at autocross, open-tracking, or even hard street cornering, as ultimately a simulated "feel" will tell lies to you.

Electrically it might be possible to introduce or reproduce the vibrations that come through as feedback, though that sounds like an awfully complex way of going about getting what a purely mechanical system gives you directly.


4. Mount the rams outboard near the control arm pivots to eliminate all the traditional linkage or steering rack, and to easily adjust for eliminating bump and roll steer.
Fluid is at least minutely compressible, and hydraulic lines will expand under pressure, so there will be some additional steer effects comparable to the compliance steer that already exists. I see a pretty complex mapping of bumpsteer vs steer vs bump/roll being necessary, as varying the ram lengths to make the steering happen will change the bumpsteer effect.


Maybe The Rook will chime in with a few thoughts.


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