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originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
I can't help but think that if I'm driving along a mountain road with a cliff to my left, and I started into a relatively sharp right-hand curve, that the force of momentum and inertia would want to send my car toward the cliff -- and the fact that the tires were spheres would let the car be pushed that way.
Then, I die.
originally posted by: CrikeyMagnet
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
I can't help but think that if I'm driving along a mountain road with a cliff to my left, and I started into a relatively sharp right-hand curve, that the force of momentum and inertia would want to send my car toward the cliff -- and the fact that the tires were spheres would let the car be pushed that way.
Then, I die.
One excellent side effect of having no direct linkage to the drive train and the ability to turn in all of the degrees would be that the tires could spin in a way that actually keeps to the corner more reliably that a tire with a single vector of motion.
Unless the tires want you dead. In that case, I imagine they'd be very efficient at throwing you over the cliff.
Seriously? No idea why someone would want to make something rather than have it handed to them in exchange for little pieces of paper?
If you run over a paperclip, will it get... like... stuck?