Omnidirectional tyres created by Canadian inventor William Liddiard – move in all directions, spin on the spot, parallel park like a boss.
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Omnidirectional tyres created by Canadian inventor William Liddiard – move in all directions, spin on the spot, parallel park like a boss.
See the Canadian flag in the background? It’s a timelapse recording. Either a fake, or it’s very very very slow…
Even if it’s fake, it’s a very cool concept design!
I’m fairly certain it’s real, but it’s very slow. Like, glacial.
Even so, no concept reaches perfection on its first iteration. Mr. Liddiard will no doubt improve on the design!
Neat :D
But can it go forwards and backwards like, you know, a car?
Don’t see why not, they’d have terrible grip on a road though.
We won’t see them on cars unless he solves the grip issue, but they look like they’d be useful for some kind of industrial machinery or the like.
like the Mecanum wheel only for the road.
Like drifting….. but really, really slow?
Great for forklifts, but wouldn’t like to take a motorway corner on them..
More fun on the m50 at rush hour.
It be a real hit or crash.
Could he not have picked a proper car instead of that ugly toyota?
I was thinking he probably picked the crappiest old car he could find because the tyres lead to crashes!
The video is sped up though, which means it must be really slow. Cool idea though.
Yeah cool, or, you know, you could just learn how to park properly, just sayin.