How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
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Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#2Jam Handy is under-appreciated in my opinion [0]. I wonder how videos like this would be received today.
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#3Same video over and over again
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=differential%20gear&sort=byPop...
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#4Same video over and over again https://hn.algolia.com/?query=differential%20gear&sort=byPop...
It's still interesting, and it's still a very good demonstration on how to explain a concept new to people.
https://xkcd.com/1053/ - Ten Thousand
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#5Same video over and over again https://hn.algolia.com/?query=differential%20gear&sort=byPop...
It's like a rubber ball fired out of a cannon into a concrete box. It hits reddit, it hits HN, it hits FB it hits forums, wash, rinse, repeat.
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#6The differential stops sliding of the rear wheels, Ackermann Steering Geometry stops sliding of the front turn wheels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry Tires slide during sharp low speed turns on some vehicles due to lowering, lifts, tire changes and even production defects.
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#7It's part of a series for Chevrolet by Jam Handy. The Internet Archive has many more of them. A few:
"Streamlines": https://archive.org/details/0142_Streamlines_M7960_09_08_44_...
"Down the Gasoline Trail": https://archive.org/details/0542_Down_the_Gasoline_Trail_06_...
"What Stops Them": https://archive.org/details/0797_What_Stops_Them_M6850_06_27...
"No Ghosts": https://archive.org/details/0797_No_Ghosts_M7860_06_16_49_00
They were really trying to get across how a car works.
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#8Jam Handy is under-appreciated in my opinion [0]. I wonder how videos like this would be received today. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
Pretty well given the attention they get whenever they do the rounds.
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#9It's part of a series for Chevrolet by Jam Handy. The Internet Archive has many more of them. A few: "Streamlines": https://archive.org/details/0142_Streamlines_M7960_09_08_44_... "Down the Gasoline Trail": https://archive.org/details/0542_Down_the_Gasoline_Trail_06_... "What Stops Them": https://archive.org/details/0797_What_Stops_Them_M6850_06_27... "No Ghosts": https://archive.org/details/0797_No_Ghosts_M7860_06_1…
>how a car works
Spinning levers, obviously...
Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]
#10Hopefully coming soon "Show HN: I wrote a bot to re-post highly up-voted videos if they haven't been re-posted for a certain time period."