*wheels near *death

>> ^cosmovitelli:

Looks like it has a turning circle of about half a mile.
Also what is Margaret Thatcher going on about with 'you are not relying on rotating the wheel to drive forward'?


What she's saying is that with a car, the wheels are turned via the axle, and to push the car forwards they must grip on the road and push the car, otherwise they just spin on the spot.

With these, the internal part is effectively turning the cabin bit against the inside of the wheel, and the wheel then moves forward or backwards just based on the weight of the internal portion pulling it around.

This contraption, while cool, is entirely impractical:

* How do you stop it? As in, how would you park this on a hill such that it wouldn't roll away?
* How do you see straight ahead?
* How do you make sure no-one inside it puts their hands into the spinning wheel of death?
* It's got waaay more size (especially height, good luck with multi-storey car parks) for less cabin space than a normal car
* The afore-mentioned poor turning circle.

Trying to sell this as actually being a practical vehicle is disingenuous.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cirque du soleil, wheel of death' to 'cirque du soleil, wheel of death, kooza' - edited by rasch187

It's one of these: Ephra, Gamelan, Mer NoireRemous, Terre Aride, and Tzelma. Don't have the CD with me right now. Check for streaming samples and see which one it is.


In reply to this comment by yourhydra:
do u know the name of the song in the Cirque Du Soleil long wheel of death video?

In reply to this comment by ant:
Also, I don't like this remix version of the song. I like the one used in O.

do u know the name of the song in the Cirque Du Soleil long wheel of death video?

In reply to this comment by ant:
Also, I don't like this remix version of the song. I like the one used in O.

How can it be a "Wheel of Death" if no one dies?