It revived its fortunes by retargeting itself as a productivity tool for warehouses, security teams at airports and other specialized locations where on-the-job effectiveness did require the ability to glide quietly along a smooth surface at 12 m.p.h.
We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.