Why can cars not be made so you can power one side backwards and the other forwards, so it could rotate like a tank? No more 3 point turns.
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Proposal - rotating cars
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Excellent design. Should be on all cars. I particularly like it going sideways. I'd use it to park in very tight spaces to piss off the people with the old kind of steering in front and behind me.
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No explanation given.
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No explanation required. A prick is a pick is a prick and you certainly are a prick. Prick.
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Why not just have electric castors that can be lowered underneath, then you can just push it sideways. Lock the castors to change a wheel simple Crossposts removed. Brian
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Your eloquence sux.
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That would be another idea, it depends what's easier to make mechanically.
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Seems to me to be a succinct but accurate description of the sort of person who wants to annoy and inconvenience random strangers for his own amusement. But what do I know? For all I know you don't even read what you write.
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Not my fault if their cars are inferior.
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Hellish hard on the tyres. Tank tracks can take it; car tyres might even rip off the rims, and if nothing else they'd wear badly.
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Surely not much harder on the tyres than a 3 point turn.
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Sideways wheels of one sort or another have been demonstrated a number of times over the years. The simplest was a 1953 Packard that was fitted with a transverse fifth wheel at the rear. The car was nosed into a space, the fifth wheel lowered and the back driven sideways into the parking space. None were commercially successful.
There is currently also the Liddiard omnidirectional wheel, which uses a doughnut shaped tyre that can rotate sideways on its rim. I don't see that being any more successful than any of the others. If nothing else, the tyre is going to have to be a compromise that probably won't be as good in normal driving as a conventional tyre.