Yahoo Autos Ford's Fusion V6 Sport Can Skip Over Potholes
When Ford's new Fusion V6 Sport debuted at the Detroit Auto Show last month, we said it would come with dampers "that can detect potholes and automatically adjust the shocks to minimize impact ." Now, Ford has revealed what the system looks like in practice and visually, it's fairly incredible.
The Fusion's adaptive dampers read road conditions every two milliseconds and when it detects the edge of a pothole, it automatically stiffens the particular wheel's damper to its stiffest setting. Effectively, it allows the Fusion to skip over potholes, as Ford demonstrates with this video.
