20 years later, and that video of that Lexus is the only* evidence of the existence of this technology. It never came close to making it into any cars that made it to market. Why? *- The tech did end up getting used to make seats for tractor-trailer drivers that isolated them from body judders.

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...makes the car turn better, stop shorter, and accelerate faster. Every auto manufacturer since forever has had to make tradeoffs between improving ride quality and improving handling, and this technology offered esentially the best possible outcomes in both worlds.

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Since the car is not physically attached to the ground in any way - remember, it's floating on an electromagnetic field, and there's no physical connection holding the weight of the car's body up - it's the smoothest conceivable ride. It also completely eliminates transient weight shifting, which...

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The benefits to this are obvious to anybody familiar with automobile suspensions, but instead of explaining I'll just show you. Bose put this suspension in a Lexus LS400 and this video exploded on the internet 20 years ago. JUST LOOK AT IT! IT'S MAGIC!

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Starting around 1980, Bose (the speaker company) started thinking about making an automobile suspension using the same type of electromagnetic systems that drive audio speakers. You would have a permanent magnet attached to the wheels, floating inside an electromagnetic field attached to the unibody

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