This Is Why Bose's Witchcraft-Spec Suspension Never Became A Thing

That old video of Bose's incredibly flat electromagnetic suspension has done the rounds online plenty of times, but why didn't the system reach production? The guys from CNET explain why, after looking at the incredible technology in action
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The last time we saw this technology at work, the question “why are we not funding this?” was posed. The answer is fairly simple: the system was too heavy and too expensive for commercial viability, although elements of the technology were used for the company’s ‘Bose Ride’ seat for truck drivers.

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Deus Robert Paulsen

Crazy cool stuff. I mean the car jumps. IT JUMPS. why doesnt have it some really expensive cars like rolls royce? Or as an option for an extra 30k?

02/08/2016 - 08:38 |
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Rolls Royce’s already weighs the same as a house, plus some boats, so… Even heavier suspension wouldn’t be too good i think…

02/08/2016 - 08:42 |
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It is also uses a lot of power, so the car it was in would get terrible MPG.

02/08/2016 - 14:53 |
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The road would collapse

04/29/2016 - 02:09 |
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Dinosbacsi

The system is too heavy? Well so are cars nowdays. If they are heavy anyway, they could be heavy because of useful stuff like this, at least.

02/08/2016 - 08:54 |
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V-Tech and EcoBoost kicked in yo

In reply to by Dinosbacsi

It also uses a large amount of power.

02/08/2016 - 14:52 |
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ciscoVT

It Handles like cars in video games lol!

02/08/2016 - 09:19 |
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GTA Vice city lol

02/08/2016 - 18:17 |
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VQ35DEfan97

Real life ‘boost jump’, video games would have become reality..

02/08/2016 - 09:20 |
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ROYDZ

Someone is reading Jalopnik…

02/08/2016 - 09:21 |
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captaind00m

because böse

02/08/2016 - 09:27 |
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Anonymous

how much more does it weigh?

02/08/2016 - 09:29 |
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Pooft Lee

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I doubt they’ll spill the beans. But a production version would need serious battery capacity

02/08/2016 - 09:45 |
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JIM_JDM

This is whats happens if lowriders were engineers

02/08/2016 - 09:40 |
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Were*

08/26/2017 - 06:19 |
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Caro

we need this in vip cars.
the weight wont matter to them the power will compensate.

02/08/2016 - 09:54 |
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Topher505

I don’t think the weight would be all too terrible. The price on the other hand could definitely be a problem. The only think I would worry about is if your electrical system ever failed you’d have no suspension. That could make things interesting.

02/08/2016 - 10:07 |
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