Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Good post about WWII Jeep design flaw

They would pull hard to the left when you braked.  This explains why.  They fixed it after the war but it seems they didn't want to disrupt manufacturing during the war by retooling the line.

There's video from 1946 Berlin that shows it in action, too.

2 comments:

Roy said...

There are several ways to drive me off of a web site, but one of the quickest is to *demand* that I disable my ad-blocker.

STxAR said...

It was an undocumented feature. Single input strafing avoidance package. Automatic escape and evasion... Sheer genius! ;)