Volvo continues to prove that the world's leading car technology. One of them uses animals, hamster, on a truck weighing 15 tons in rough terrain.
Charlie, the name of the pet hamster used to demonstrate how light technology of Dynamic Steering Volvo Swedish company that developed it.
How to test this by putting Charlie in the wheel that is associated in the steering wheel. Charlie did not work alone. Rodents was accompanied Seon Rogers.
Rogers only acts as a regulator of the gas and brake pedals as well as a carrot to persuade Charlie to use Charlie to make the move from left to right.
The trial is conducted in a narrow and steep mining at Los Tres Cunados, Spain. Roads are gravel and slippery.
However, 6 months old hamster was shown to drive a 15 ton truck to the finish line. This trial as proof that Volvo engineers managed to make the steering motion of the truck weighs 15 tons to be mild.
These results also indicate if Volvo successful in terms of future technology. Dynamic Steering Volvo Technology is designed for all types of Volvo truck driver who makes work in rough terrain.
Volvo developed the latest Volvo with Dynamic Steering uses an electric motor to lighten the steering motion, so the result of animals weighing 175 grams can drive a truck reported dailymail, Saturday (14/09/2013).
