Apparently I can watch that video every couple months and still be equally amazed by it.
Please remind me to watch this again in a few months, it’s super cool.
Modern cars have “traction control”, which detects when a wheel turns more than the other wheel. If it turns too much more, it will engage a “diff lock” and lock the differential which makes each wheel turn with the same power/speed/energy as if the differential was just a solid axle.
The long & the short of it is that a differential is only “1 wheel drive” when the differential “thinks” (it’s not smart) it should put all the power into 1 wheel - which is when the cars computer locks the differential.
The explaination of how differentials work was painfully wrong. An I lost confidence in this author’s ability to explain the topic.
Ok. Care to elaborate, please?
https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI
Apparently I can watch that video every couple months and still be equally amazed by it.
Please remind me to watch this again in a few months, it’s super cool.
Perfect
I knew exactly which video that would be. Such a perfectly clear explanation.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Around_the_Corner_(1937)_24fps_selection.webm
Wiki to the rescue!
It’s a great video from 1937.
And the article has info as well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_(mechanical_device)
Modern cars have “traction control”, which detects when a wheel turns more than the other wheel. If it turns too much more, it will engage a “diff lock” and lock the differential which makes each wheel turn with the same power/speed/energy as if the differential was just a solid axle.
The long & the short of it is that a differential is only “1 wheel drive” when the differential “thinks” (it’s not smart) it should put all the power into 1 wheel - which is when the cars computer locks the differential.
Please forgive my laziness - https://chat.openai.com/share/45e326f5-1653-4c51-b057-b36326963559
Came here to say this.