"GTO62" (gto62)
05/01/2018 at 22:43 • Filed to: None
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"GTO62" (gto62)
05/01/2018 at 22:43 • Filed to: None | 2
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Just came across a 5th wheel parking system developed in the US in the 1930s, then rediscovered in the 1950s, and finally reinvented somewhere in the Middle East in the 1980s to aid parking of a Renault 5!
Not great for trunk space but beats most parking assist systems in speed and you would get the dubious bonus of Continental kits in every car!
The British liking to be different, they stayed with 4 wheels but used some seriously crazy adaptive steering to achieve similar results...
fintail
> GTO62
05/01/2018 at 23:08 |
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Red Green’s solution was more complex:
Urambo Tauro
> GTO62
05/01/2018 at 23:11 |
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I like how the spare is being used for this. Sure, if you ever get a flat, you better hope that you didn’t squeeze yourself into too tight of a space. But hey, it makes use of an otherwise 99% dormant part of the car.
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GTO62
> Urambo Tauro
05/01/2018 at 23:19 |
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Indeed, though nowadays most manufacturers are giving up on spare tires thanks to those heavy, noisy, and not-very-good runflat tires.
Chariotoflove
> fintail
05/02/2018 at 00:10 |
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I was in disbelief because I’ve never seen one of Red’s projects actually work, and then...oh.
bhtooefr
> GTO62
05/02/2018 at 06:43 |
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Nowadays there’s a lot of cars that have neither runflats nor a spare, depending instead on a compressor and a can of fix-a-flat.