NO STEERING AT 140 M.P.H.
TJIGH speed motor test AX tracks built by the Ford company in the United States are designed fer speeds up to MB miles an hour through curves at either end of the five-mile ovals—with no steering necessary by the driver.
One segment of the company’s programme for testing its cars is a high-speed run, at times stretching into thousands of miles. The engineers designed an oval that would permit constant speeds as high as 140 miles an hour, and yet appear to the car that it was nothing but an endless highway. The first step was to make the road a partner in conducting the car around the curves. The ideal curve developed for the system holds the car on the bank through natural centrifugal force and inertia rather than driver control.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29227, 10 June 1960, Page 13
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