These Freaky Omni-Capable Wheels Would Make Parallel Parking Stupidly Easy
While the surfaces of these prototype rims - built by the uploader himself - seem to be slick and therefore useless for the road, he claims that they “can have the same build characteristics (siping, grooves, rubber compounds etc.) as regular tires”. What’s particularly interesting is the wheels are bolt-on items on a regular Toyota Echo which hasn’t needed to be modified to accept them.
It does seem like a cool concept, but we’d want to know exactly how much they weigh - you’d think the new rims would be on the heavy side, adding a hell of a lot of unsprung mass.
Creator William Liddiard calls these “proof of concept prototypes”, so it’ll be interesting to see how he develops the idea.
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and it gives a decent stanced look lol
“Glitch in the Matrix” Stance.
As someone who was in robotics and used these as a scrap robot, these suck. They not only require 4 different motors to power each wheel, but require a special controller and 50/50 weight to function properly. They are a nice idea, however they are complete garbage for any actual use. So many flaws to benefit strafing.
Fake drifting with these would be stupid easy
https://youtu.be/r-OAzXqLd0Y Reminds me if this…
can you do a burnout with it?
The one flaw I immediately saw in the system is possible debris like little stones, sand, glass shards and so on sticking to the rubber, then being sucked into the mechanism, where it’s free to wreak havoc. Among other flaws, I wouldn’t ever expect this to be reliable. Plus, has anybody noticed that the footage is fast forwarded, yet it’s still painfully slow?
decades spent making the perfect radial tyres…
Will it drift?!
or you could just learn how to parallel park