In this 4 wheel steering, rear wheels start to assist front wheels after
turning angle is big enough. Rear wheels always turns into opposite
direction.
Turning of rear wheels reduce the turning radius. Helps you drive the big car
into and in small places.
Steering acts like mechanical. It never tries to help you with steering.
Aid, you can get with digital system, is always based on a wild guess from
the things you want from steering and also from the situation you are currently
in. Wild guesses results more often into disadvantage than advantage. Even
the simple ABS system fails surprisingly often, when it is needed for real.
Therefore you should not build driving aids, which cannot be switched
off line. Tracks control, which cannot turned off, is very difficult,
after you get stuck into snow or mud. Need muscle power for getting the
car going again. Muscle powered stuck control team does not get any help
from the car. And without traction control, you could have gotten away
without help. Sliding wheel has some push power and grip. Then it can dig
a hole and get better grip from the harder or rougher bottom.
2-circuit electro-hydraulic steering
You might want to replace the old rods with hydraulic steering. In
hydraulic steering, each wheel has it's own steering unit. Independent
system can be made so, that suspension events do not change the steering
angle. You can also take full advantage from new steering
theory-and-geometry.
Hydraulic
system is typically safer and more reliable than electric, motorized system.
Hydraulic system is mechanical system, where you replace the rods with
liquids.
Each unit for the wheels should have at least two independent work
cylinder systems and one gear-turner system. Independent work cylinder
systems keep the steering functional, when one system goes broke.
The work cylinder at the wheel has two pipes. In chassis' steering unit
you have main piston, which moves in two directions. When you move the main
piston to left or right, the work piston moves accordingly. The wheel unit
is completely enclosed and sealed. The wheel's turn system is covered with
box. Much like drum brake. You empower and adjust the steering angles with
steering box and main piston moves in chassis. The wheel's completely
enclosed turn unit is better and safer then current rod system. There aren't
any moving and suspending joint systems, which needs rubber covers.
Hydraulic steering in wheels allows you take full advantage from
hydraulic crank-transmission system. Hydraulic pipes doesn't need much space
in the middle. Hydraulic steering makes the power transmission from steering
unit to rear-wheel units easy and compact. Steering forces are smaller than
braking forces. Pipelines for steering are like the pipes for breaks.
Hydraulic steering detaches chassis from body. You don't need steering
column-wheel system in the chassis, which goes into body. In chassis you
need system with hydraulic plugs for body's standardized steering
system.
You can also use electric system in body, connect the body to chassis
with electric wires. Electric system needs at least three independent wiring
systems for safety. With three wires you can compare signals from the wires
and drop one faulty signal from the signal, which is forwarded to actual
steering unit. In cars and vehicles A/C wiring, you must detect faults in
all electric lines, with multiple wires. Single wired A/C system is
vulnerable to cuts and poor connectors. One poor or broken wire affects to
many things.
If mechanic has played with brakes, work with hydraulic steering is
similar to brakes hydraulic system.
4-circuit brakes
Each wheel get it's own cylinder and pipe line. Also possible to build
hydraulic steering like 8 circuit brakes.
The ABS system is based
on rotating speed. ABS activates, when wheels speed falls to near zero. Then
it starts to adjust pressure and the speed of wheel. System needs to compare
wheel speed with car's speed. So, that you can stop the car with brakes.
Possible with for example acceleration sensor. System needs on-off switch,
possible a mode for icy / slippery roads.
You should be capable of building a system, which optimizes ice-asphalt
braking. Which is impossible for current ABS systems.