An interesting feature may appear in future Lamborghini supercars allowing them to adjust their wheel camber and track on the go with the help of specially designed ‘active hubs’. Car&Driver believes it can further improve their stability and handling.
The feature is reportedly called Active Wheel Carrier. It can be used to adapt the chassis of the car to the rapidly changing driving conditions, re-aligning the wheels on their axles in real time to make sharp curves and other extreme maneuvers.
The active hub is reportedly being designed to support wheel alignment adjustments of up to 6.6 degrees in any direction, as well as up to 2.5 degrees of positive camber and 5.5 degrees of negative camber. Not just that, but it is expected to be able to make adjustments along two different axles simultaneously. Small electric drives will be used to re-align the wheel from one extreme position to the opposite one in just 250 milliseconds.
According to Car&Driver, the Italian automaker is already testing the innovative feature on the rear wheels of a Huracan test mule. The engineers have yet to find a way to seamlessly integrate it into the existing smart assist package, which already includes torque vectoring and adaptive shocks. Rumor has it the company plans to implement the Active Wheel Carrier on the Huracan successor expected to debut sometime next year. The car has already been spotted on the streets – check out the gallery and the video if you haven’t seen it.