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Truck driver invents new tires that let you drive sideways
- hhandoko 10y agoAs interesting as this might be, what problem exactly is it trying to solve?
- Fjolsvith 10y agoActually, it would be really useful to me for my truck I use to deliver portable buildings. As my truck and trailer are 40 feet long, it sometimes takes some jockeying to line the trailer up to the building to load. If I could have either the trailer wheels shift sideways or the truck shift sideways, it would be much easier.
- hhandoko 10y agoThe design seems only suitable for low-speed operations. So for your use case, it might work. But I see this as solving one problem and introducing three more, e.g. would this design be safe for cruising speed (>60km/h) or cornering, and how would the tyre wear out uniformly over time? PS. Why the downvote? It was a genuine question.