š Bose once built a suspension system so advanced that a Lexus LS400 could glide over bumps with its body staying almost completely level.
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The prototype replaced conventional dampers with powerful linear electromagnetic motors at each wheel, allowing the suspension to actively move the wheels up and down in milliseconds.
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Bose began developing the idea in 1980 and publicly demonstrated the working Lexus prototype in 2004 after more than two decades of research.
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The system could dramatically reduce body roll, pitch and vertical movement, and the famous demo even showed the car jumping over an obstacle.
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Despite how impressive it was, the technology never reached production because the hardware was too heavy and expensive for mass-market use at the time.
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