How to Use active suspension in a Sentence

active suspension

noun
  • More than a decade later, where's our active suspension?
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
  • But instead of absorbing bumps through springs attached to the car body, each wheel in an Indigo car contains its own active suspension system.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Selecting the most aggressive Track function both causes the active suspension to reduce the ride height and brings the option of a variable traction-control setting.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2023
  • To preserve performance in the face of the reduced travel, the desingers changed the semi-active suspension’s damping strategy and installed progressive springs.
    Nick Goddard, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The 48-volt hydropneumatic active suspension system is the only one of its kind, on any vehicle.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • There are also adaptive air springs connected to the automaker’s active suspension system, torque vectoring and rear-wheel steering, though the last is only available as an add-on.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The sedan is also available with innovative features that include rear-seat airbags and an active suspension that will lift the car up to reduce the severity of damage during a collision.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The sedan is also available with innovative features that include rear-seat airbags and an active suspension that will lift the car up to reduce the severity of damage during a collision.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Funny, but in racing the story was entirely different: active suspension worked so well on Williams-Renault Formula One cars of the era that the technology was banned.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The active suspension and limited-slip differential in the $1,200 Ti Performance Package probably also had a lot to do with handling as well.
    Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Multimatic's active suspension crowns the transaxle, using race-type pushrod suspension and the latest in adaptive spool valve shocks to enable as much control for drivers as possible.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Four-wheel steering, bidirectional design, and active suspension are some of the features integrated into the Zoox robotaxi to ensure every ride is a smooth ride.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The Quadrifoglio has active suspension with a four-channel chassis dampening system to quickly adapt to changing driving conditions.
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • She was then found to be driving on an active suspension under Ohio’s Financial Responsibility Act.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The active suspension references the period of actual closure; most clubs received a deferred suspension in addition to the active portion.
    Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • As for ride and comfort, the active suspension and the ability to control separately the power applied to each wheel permit better grip and increased stability during braking and cornering.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Lexus has tried smoothing things out by retuning the base suspension and improving the optional active suspension that constantly adjusts shock dampening.
    Malcolm Gunn, courant.com, 28 June 2018
  • Other approaches to stabilize boats have relied on a kind of active suspension, like Velodyne Marine’s Martini 1.5, designed to make high-speed boating safer, which could be crucial in search-and-rescue operations.
    Jack Stewart, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • An active suspension that adapts according to road information from the navigation system and forward-facing cameras also promises to keep the ride very luxurious.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
  • One candidate had three active suspensions by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
    Jim Morrill, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
  • According to the Best Car report, Nissan engineers are impressed with the Taycan’s extremely low center of gravity, as well as its active suspension, dynamic chassis control, rear-wheel steering and two-speed transmission.
    Peter Lyon, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • The truck’s Baja mode samples terrain conditions hundreds of times per second, modulating the truck’s power delivery and constantly retuning its active suspension based on speed and conditions.
    Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Vehicles are increasingly loaded with accelerometers, which feed data into active suspension systems, for example.
    WIRED, 14 Nov. 2022

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