First Bronco Air Ride Suspension (guess thats what you’d call it)

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[De Brus]

No they ditnt

 

[618TRVLWILD]

No they ditnt

Ohhh but they did. No steps needed now.

 

[Bronc-Itus]

 

[Papa Smurf]

Garage door mode, Activated!!

 

[Bdockins]

Super cool.

 

[@BadBlueBronco]

Ooooh F yes they did! Yeehaw

 

[BroncoBoy22]

Slammed and bagged lol

 

[North7]

We finally found a use for the patent.

The 2021 Ford Bronco's Suspension May Rock Babies to Sleep, Dance to Music Oh, and there's even a "Daredevil" suspension mode—provided this patent is for the Bronco.

The Ford patent describes a complex mating of hardware and software that essentially links the Bronco's (possibly optional) electronically adjustable suspension system to a monitoring setup tracking traffic, weather, terrain, and even what kind of music you're listening to to determine the car's optimal ride height and suspension behavior. It works both on the fly, automatically, and at the behest of the driver, via several apparently driver-selectable modes

Daredevil mode, according to the patent, claims "the vehicle's suspension height may be mapped to the target suspension height such that the vehicle . . . can be driven on, for example, two and/or three wheels without overturning." While it's probably not for wheelies, or road use in general, the ability to tilt the car over on one side might actually prove useful for clearing narrow off-road obstacles or setting a tire perfectly on a boulder or even balancing a Bronco if one or more wheels lose purchase while traversing particularly egregious terrain. Here are the other suspension modes listed in the patent:

• Mobility (the Avoidance, Traffic, Freight, and City Mobility modes fall under the Mobility umbrella)
• Avoidance (adjusts to deliver quicker responses from the suspension)
• Traffic (basically a comfort mode)
• Freight (sounds like load leveling, in which the suspension accounts for a heavy cargo load)
• City Mobility (sets the vehicle up for "aggressive" driving)
• Cooperative (matches ride height to that of a nearby vehicle to facilitate transfer of cargo between them)
• Utility (the Office, Towing, Cradle, and Rest modes fall under the Utility umbrella)
• Office (a quiet, comfort-focused mode geared toward remote working within the car)
• Towing (optimises the suspension for towing)
• Cradle (no joke, this "assigns a low-frequency movement to the vehicle" to soothe a baby)
• Resting (similar to the office setting, this makes the ride quiet and squishy)
• Suspension Minder (the haptic and safety modes fall under the Suspension Minder umbrella)
• Haptic (driver alerts can be registered by body motions / vibrations induced by the suspension)
• Safety (maximizes suspension stability for safe avoidance maneuvers, similar to "avoidance" above)
• Driver (Novice and Expert Driver functions fall under the Driver umbrella)
• Expert Driver (if the vehicle determines the driver to be more experienced, it sets up the vehicle accordingly)
• Novice Driver (if the vehicle determines the driver to be inexperienced, it sets up the vehicle accordingly)
• Fun-to-Ride (this delivers a "rough ride" for a "fun-to-ride sensation for vehicle occupants")
• Fun-to-Drive (sets up the suspension for aggressive on-road driving)
• Quiet (works "in tandem with, for example, active noise cancellation to reduce road-induced noise and/or detected vehicle vibrations)
• Vigilance Boosting (similar to the Haptic function, this detects driver fatigue and can buzz the car via the suspension to wake him or her up)

 

[618TRVLWILD]

We finally found a use for the patent.

The 2021 Ford Bronco's Suspension May Rock Babies to Sleep, Dance to Music Oh, and there's even a "Daredevil" suspension mode—provided this patent is for the Bronco.

Ohhh I forgot about that!!!

 

[604Bronco]

Pfft, my Trailhawk can do that

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