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High costs, significant power absorption, bulky and unreliable hydraulic systems, and uncertain management of the safety issues: the fatal attraction for fully active electronic suspensions lasted only a few years. In the second half of the 1990s, a new trend emerged: it became increasingly clear that the best compromise of cost (component cost, weight, electronics and sensors, power consumption, etc.) and performance (comfort, handling, safety) was to be found in the technology of electronically controllable suspensions: the variable-damping suspension or, in brief, the semi-active suspension. After a decade this technology is still highly promising and attractive: it has been introduced in the mass-market production of cars; it is entering the motorcycle market; a lot of special vehicles or niche applications are considering this technology; many new variable-damping technologies are being developed. Semi-active suspensions are expected to play an even more important role in the emerging trend of electric vehicles with in-wheel motors: in such a vehicle architecture the role of suspension damping is more crucial, and semi-active suspensions can significantly contribute to reduce the negative effects of the large unsprung mass. As in many other electronically controlled systems, the actuator is not \u201csmart itself\u201d: it simply inherits the smartness (or dumbness) of its control algorithm designer. The key of semi-active suspensions is in the algorithm. 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