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  2. Dymaxion car - Wikipedia

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    Rumpler Tropfenwagen (1921), first aerodynamic "teardrop" car to be designed and serially produced (about 100 units built) Persu car (1922–1923), designed by Romanian engineer Aurel Persu, improved on the Tropfenwagen by placing the wheels inside the car body; Stout Scarab (1932–1935, 1946), US; Schlörwagen (1939), German prototype, never ...

  3. Articulated bus - Wikipedia

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    Solaris Urbino 18 in Warsaw, Poland (2018). First example of the articulated bus appeared in Milan in 1937.In 1938, Twin Coach built an articulated bus for the city of Baltimore; this bus, which had four axles on a 47 ft (14.33 m) long body, was only articulated in the vertical direction to accommodate steep grades. 15 examples of the "Super Twin" were built in 1948, but it was not developed ...

  4. Gyrobus - Wikipedia

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    Gyrobus G3, the only surviving gyrobus in the world (built in 1955) in the Flemish tramway and bus museum, Antwerp. A gyrobus is an electric bus that uses flywheel energy storage, not overhead wires like a trolleybus. The name comes from the Greek language term for flywheel, gyros. While there are no gyrobuses currently in use commercially ...

  5. Turning radius - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of turning vehicle. On wheeled vehicles with the common type of front wheel steering (i.e. one, two or even four wheels at the front capable of steering), the vehicle's turning diameter measures the minimum space needed to turn the vehicle around while the steering is set to its maximum displacement from the central 'straight ahead' position - i.e. either extreme left or right.

  6. Steering wheel - Wikipedia

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    Passenger car steering wheels from different periods Steering wheel and front wheels of a farm tractor Steering wheel in a tank Steering wheel in a VDL Bova bus. A steering wheel (also called a driving wheel, a hand wheel, or simply wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles. Steering wheels are used in most modern land vehicles ...

  7. ‘More than sitting behind this wheel.’ Former trucker may be ...

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    Soon he took the wheel, stepped on the gas and steered Bus No. 537 out into Macon. It was just past 5 a.m. ... Back in 2009, when a man’s car broke down in east Macon, Franklin stopped his bus ...

  8. Spare tire - Wikipedia

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    A spare tire allows a driver to replace a flat tire and drive on A Stepney rim. An early approach to providing a car with a spare tire Dual sidemounted spare tires behind the front fenders on a 1931 Nash Ambassador Temporary use "space-saver" spare tire mounted in the trunk of a 1970 AMC AMX with a single use air canister Full size spare tire mounted in cargo space area of a 1993 Jeep Grand ...

  9. Ackermann steering geometry - Wikipedia

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    Intersecting the axes of the front wheels on this line as well requires that the inside front wheel be turned, when steering, through a greater angle than the outside wheel. [2] Rather than the preceding "turntable" steering, where both front wheels turned around a common pivot, each wheel gained its own pivot, close to its own hub.