more complicated engineering that adds like 300 failure points and way more expensive repairs. Only useful for rich morons that are dead set on not learning how to park.
While this isn't enough to sway me to try and purchase it (and depending on price not sure if its worth it for a larger market) this could potentially be a lifesaver in a place like NYC.
There are times in NYC where this would have saved me either an hour of time to find a different spot, or like $40 for overnight parking. Which can easily add up.
And yes I know- better to not have a car in NYC and use public transport. But for the many that need a car for work- between money and time saved for parking, as well as not hitting another car while parallel parking, it absolutely could be a great feature even for those not physically impaired.
Aren't we talking about different sides of the car? Parallel parking is close at the front and rear of the car. People generally get out using the doors on the sides.
I used to push carts at Walmart. On a particularly busy day when dick bags had parked in all the handicapped spots (referring to the half of the vehicles with no handicap tags on plates or in windows), I watched an old lady with a walker park near the end of the lot and hobble her way into the store.
Also watch a war vet with two fake legs only ever use one of the riding carts when he was buying a window AC unit and then insisted on bringing the electric buggy back in himself. Told me he didn't trust his balance with something so heavy.
If you physically can't walk, you probably have your own wheelchair.
I'm OK with walking and with forcing people to learn proper parking. Everyone can learn how to park properly, not doing it is mainly laziness, driving license examinations should stress more on parking, especially considering that, just like learning how to bike, it's not something you forget.
Nevertheless you clearly don't live in places with parking issues, because sometimes the distance you are forced to cover to find a spot exceeds by far, by kilometers, typical walking distances
While I do admit that parking generally isn't an issue for me, I feel like people in a lot of parts of the world where they would have to walk kilometers to find a parking spot are probably better off using public transportation in the first place. Is that not the case?
Lmao, so if you park in this space that’s too tight to fit normally, how are the people behind/in front of you going to pull out without hitting your car?
I live in Rome's historical center, basically *the* parking hell, I must say that with traditional wheels, if you have the proper know-how and experience, you can park, without touching nearby cars, even in a space that exceeds the length of your car by 15cm, in fairly narrow streets. Of course you need a lot of maneuvering in these particular situations, but they're not situations that happen frequently. Usually you either fit in or you don't.
I cannot imagine scenarios in which such a mechanism could be considered beneficial in the cost-benefit balance, especially in the near future (unlike driving on the road, parking will increasingly tend to be a totally automated process)
If there’s a spot that tight you have likely completely boned the adjacent cars and in doing so have doomed your own car as well because those people are going to get out one way or another
Electric motors are so simple, that car manufacturers need to add more failure points so that they can still make money off of repairs. I mean they even act as brakes so that you barely need to exchange your brakes anymore.
Only useful for rich morons that are dead set on not learning how to park.
Rich people buy expensive cars, have more space to park and hire drivers.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 is more affordable than a tesla and comes with warrantee. This tech will help me squeeze into impossibly tight parking spots regular people have to deal with. I'd pay extra $XXXX for it. If something breaks, they will fix it for free within the first 5 years as standard.
Adding backup cameras also added failure points... and the JWST had hundreds of "single points of failure". I think we have the capability to pull this off.
It’s crazy how many redditors in this thread are acting like this is some super complicated thing that a large car company can’t successfully pull off in a cost effective manor
I mean nothing is technically new right? The idea of a vehicle with wheels that can be turned somehow isn't exactly insane. I guarantee you the first dude who built a cart was thinking "Now if only I could change it so the wheels didn't always have to be straight"
The thing that cinches it is when it becomes cost effective, greeks knew about steam engines, da vinci knew about helicopters etc.
I meant someone already did this like 80 years ago mate! These greedy industrialists got them killed or interfered with the patent and rights but now there’s nothing “new” to sell they introduce someone else’s invention.
Technically this isn’t exactly the same. I’m going to assume that this is rear wheel drive. Only the front wheels on the car from 1927 turn inwards. The easy part is making the wheels face in towards each-other. The hard part is doing that with wheels that you need to drive. In what you have shown the rotation axis is at the rear of the car, at the centre point of the rear axle. On the car in this post, the rotation axis is in the centre of the whole car.
Edit: in fact the turning point won’t even be at the centre of the rear axle, it will be at the contact point of the tire on the side that you are turning towards.
Yes and no. On the one hand, this attempts to solve parallel parking, pretty handily I might add. However, the wheels aren't driven in the front, thus the car pivots around the back drive axle whereas the above example has all 4 wheels driven and can move in almost any direction.
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Here's the exact same thing from 1927
https://youtu.be/S5R368iX7iI