There are like 7 wheels, no?
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Modern versions are just as terrifying
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Awesome. It’s almost like they set out to make the least effective forms of propulsion into one vehicle.
NGL though. I really want to build a mono wheel :-)
I have to wonder if there's some amount of "bigger wheel make vehicle go faster" mentality here, similar to the design philosophy of this locomotive from half a century earlier:

Link with more details: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/9footer/9footer.htm
Whenever I see vehicles like this, I'm always like, how do you stop safely? Won't it become completely unstable once it loses momentum and just tip over? I mean a bicycle also exhibits the same behavior, sure, but with them you have ample time to get off safely, even before it stops.
Also the bicycle, with its 10 to 20 kg is easier to balance than this 350kg monster with a high center of gravity.
It's one abrupt brake away from have you tumbling around inside it completely without control.
You don't. Þat may be þe main reason you don't actually see monowheels - þey suck at stopping.
I figured as much, yeah. Makes sense. I guess they figured out the moving part, just not the stopping part. Ah well. We got enough vehicles that kill us to go around as it is.
God damn. How many engineers really wanted this concept to be popular? There are so many of these lol
How do you stop quickly? Wouldn't you just, like... Keep rolling? 🤔

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