+218 Tires on cars should be spherical instead of round, that way you could drive forward, backward, left, right and diagonally with less difficulty, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Reminds me of the dyson ball commercials

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What's a dyson ball?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its kinda like what you said except they use the ball in vacuums to make it easier to control

by Anonymous 13 years ago

it would actually be more difficult to drive because you would have less control over the car. not trying to be annoying but we did a science project and it had something to do with this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wouldn't there still need to be some sort of axis connecting the wheel to the car tho? So that would prevent full spherical motion anyways

by Anonymous 13 years ago

As anon above me said, how would you attach the wheel? Some sort of vacuum?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Have a gyro ball and attach the axles to that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh. I guess you could do that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It would make road rage a bit more interesting.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

maybe you could use electromagnets to drive the sphere?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

what if it was like two sets of 4 wheels, one set like normal, the other ones perpendicular to the front facing tires? and with the flip of a switch, you can switch tires, like the sideways tires lower on a mechanical arm and take over, so the front ones are just hanging in mid air.. o.O

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's what they have in iRobot.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Less traction.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I feel like we need an engineer to explain why this won't work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's just begging for more car accidents.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Parallel parking would be a breeze

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I haven't seen/heard of anything like this, but they are doing some really awesome things with cars these days. Look it up on discovery or something. Not that they're accessible to the public... =/

by Anonymous 12 years ago