Five-Wheeled Car

Posted by John Farrier in Video Clips on August 14, 2009 at 10:13 am



(YouTube Link)

Esslam Zahra of Egypt mounted a retractable fifth wheel on the back of his car, set at a right angle to the other four wheels, in order to pivot into tight parking spots.

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13 comments to "Five-Wheeled Car"

  1. c-scar
    August 14th, 2009 at 10:57 am

    I saw a video of this same technique years ago...and it was some group of high school kids that did it. So as far as I know, I consider them the inventors of this idea

  2. anonymoussss
    August 14th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    Or, they both ended up inventing it.

  3. health
    August 14th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    And to think he just could have learned to parallel park.

  4. Katie
    August 14th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    That's pretty cool for him. Not so cool for the people on either side of him who now may be trapped.

  5. Neil
    August 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    If you think about it there is only an extremely slight advantage over parallel parking, which uses the identical pivot principle, though the front wheels can't go all the way to 90 degrees. However, if he were to move both ends at once using the front wheels and the 5th wheel he may well be on to something. Better practice with some cones first.

  6. seekshelter
    August 14th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    are their license plates hand-written??

  7. pwscott
    August 14th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    Egyptian load of crap is what this is. I saw the same invention on one of those old News reels. A search on the inernet would probably bring it up.Plus the guy in the news reel was using a 40's model car with the Continental tire covers on the back. Much classier.

  8. Vonskippy
    August 14th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Snazzier then a camel with three humps.

  9. abdulhamid
    August 15th, 2009 at 5:10 am

    While it is certainly no Giza, I am glad that the Egyptians are once again making forays into engineering after a 2,000-year dryspell.

  10. wuthuh
    August 15th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
  11. Skipweasel
    August 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    This comes up somewhere in a 1940s Popular Science. Fun - but hardly new. I've seen similar devices every ten years or so for ages.

  12. abdulhamid
    August 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    What about a two-wheeled unicycle? That should have been invented by now.

  13. esslam
    October 19th, 2009 at 4:04 am

    thanks for you ... i am the person who did that, its free for rotation and very simple just drop and enter between cars..
    my name is esslam and my mail is arabinventor@yahoo.com
    thanks very much


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