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Once someone can figure a way to consintanally have 100 % Opening's, Straight.
Then we might have Life by the Balls !

no need, just get cardboard boxes.

No,
Just trying to think of a way.

100 % on heading openings.

I have to admit that when I first read your question I thought "this is retarded".

Then I started considering that (1) the heading you really want is more or less always the one that's away from the nearest large object; and (2) that perhaps this could be achieved by controlling riser tension through the opening.

Here's a thought, though. Clearly (to me) this could work in slider-up jumps. I mean, any reasonably skilled jumper can steer (at least) many slider-up off-headings. But then the problem isn't so much gear limitations as jumper limitations -- meaning that even a perfect system will never do better than a skilled jumper, so perhaps we should aim for the latter.

Now, slider-down openings... I think that, in many (maybe the worst) cases, those are set before the parachute is really properly a parachute -- though certainly harness input can help (or hurt ). To the extent that they're set early, a system like the above isn't really going to be able to steer you out of them before they *become* an off-heading. And after they do, again, in most cases a skilled jumper can take care of that more-or-less optimally.

So what are you left with? Correcting the canopy before it's even steerable? To a heading that's not determined by body position or attitude?