Square-Wheeled Tricycle

[thunderbirdlver]

That's freakin awesome!  I wanna ride!

[savardavenger69]

"surreal" ,,, art in motion !!!

[italiandude321]

now ride it on the street



[playmoregtr]

Only in Texas...

[RedSilencerYoyo]

That'd be great for a roof-top chase in Mexico.

[321boileranimal]

Dear God cast that retched thing back to the fires of hell where it came from. 

[lalolalopop]

kid asks his dad for a bike his dad says "son ill make you one" "DAMN IT DAD I DONT WANT ANOTHER SQUARE TRIKE"

[DONTnameYOURkidZELDA]

Very, very cool.

[stayinstock]

in Soviet Russia, tricycle rides you.

[ikharus1]

amazingly useless :)

[MichaelMantion]

At first I wasn't impressed, then i saw how smooth the ride was. I can see some practical uses in say automated straight line robots. Instead of needing a traditional traction wheel, path or a traditional gear track you could use square wheels. could you do this with triangle wheels? I would think you could.

[timtam006]

will this be useful in the future? ^^Y

[lolwut1337n355]

Fail bike - Your ride is here.

[ImaBombUBoiee]

this is what chuck norris rode on a flat road when he was 4

[TommTheDinosaur]

I'm in that fucking epic part of youtube again.

[wan2bvader]

that the kind of engineering that blew up my death star

[lo0nyk]

you can easy drive this thing in Russia :) lol

[BrianOfAteionas]

Needs Vtech.

[hondayamahafan]

haha only aggies ride on square wheels!

[HighAway]

that is so stupid... its like driving around that the earth is actually flat

[Hemi4127]

@HighAway actually im sure its a learning tool,

[bry250f]

so this is what the teachers and professors are teaching our youth! no wonder where ranked 38th in education in the world. where teaching stuff that has no real practical use in the "real world" guess future america is screwed

[Hemi4127]

@bry250f lol it has nothing to do with square wheels its to show them math in real life, because some people have to see it to understand it (ie physics.), its stuff like this that will allow us to teach to many different learning styles. And hopefully get back on top, BUT the first thing that needs to change is the student .IE did you not read the description in the video ,or did you just not understand it

[Hemi4127]

@bry250f o and by the way every time you turn the wheel on your car your using this basic model in everyday life(rack and pinion this would be the start of a very simple rack and pinion )

[bry250f]

@Hemi4127 ha ya i guess it is for very basic simple physics.. but these kids look like there in college and im sure they are considering its from texas a&m. i could see if it was high school or something. that seemed pretty common knowledge when i was in high school. and if you wanted to teach rack and pinion than shouldnt you have just used gears or made the bicycle stationary and had the curves move..? lol i guess that was my point, this should be a high school project not college.

[bry250f]

@Hemi4127 or like joe8zw said^ maybe a college in canada! haha

[joe8zw]

We have always used square wheels in Canada

[UDONTCME111]

Great Top Comments

[Nettikturbo]

Wow another type of gear and cog.... Someone alert NASA.

[TuxedoRonny]

I hope no one is funding this.

[EPW389]

best top comments ever

[rorymurphy27]

so lets start making bumpy ass roads ? haha really people.. nice science project though

[GRAYFOX91]

simple physics its beautiful is it not

[scottspook]

NickSparkss looks like a 40 year old lesbian lol... no wonder you can't get laid... no style.. bad hair..ugly woman face

[warrior7772]

This is how the egyptians moved heavy stones when building the pyramids. The tracks were like this and one man could push/move the stone across the bumpy rail/track. Smart dudes with the help of extra- terrestrials.

[borsecrosu]

very practical why stop? make a turn and i*ll buy one

[vanchronos]

Well its not a tri-'cycle' at all then is it?

[Foxtropics]

Just another day in Minecraft...

[MShepherd88]

Epic bike is epic.

[IVIegadude]

Now turn.

[two2twinface]

This is how the pyramids were built. Instead of dragging square stones, they rolled the stones on tracks like these.

[MsCostarica1]

try to do a u turn..lol......

[MsCostarica1]

lets do all the fucking roads bumppy n then we can buy a useles square wheeled bike......

[DimensionGamingDG]

notch would be proud :)

[SmithScapegoat]

yeah so this is probably the coolest thing in all of existence

[givmeb33r]

r u really that stupid?

[klc9909]

this is the stupidest idea ever... u have to build a bike AND build an apropiate road to ride that bike. you guys need to get laid.

[ganjafreak420]

@klc9909 Retard..

[klc9909]

@ganjafreak420 oh excuse me, i didnt realize the AWESOMENESS of this bike... i bet the gears in a clockwork machinery would TOTALLY blow your mind. u 2 need to get laid dude

[NickSparkss]

@klc9909 They're physics students, and this is a physics project.

They know it's not practical, and they're not trying to sell the idea, they're doing an assignment for grad school.

It's actually really impressive if you stopped to think about it, as it requires a lot of high level calculus to make the exact cosine curve that the road is made out of.

When they're making six figures a year, they'll be getting laid plenty.

[klc9909]

@NickSparkss kudos for them... but its kinda lame u think this requires ''high level calculus'' when in fact u can just roll the bike on a muddy terrain and look at the marks it leaves printed into the dirt...

and its also funny how u accept only shitloads of money could get them laid XD

[NickSparkss]

@klc9909 It does require high level calculus. If they rolled the bike on mud, like you said, it would look like a jagged line, and it would not move smoothly. It wouldn't work with a rider on top of it. The track it made from a very specific cosine curve that allowed the bike to move when someone was on it.

And these guys probably have gotten laid, I'm not sure why you're assuming otherwise. In the real world, smarts and job security matter more than being cool.

[scottspook]

@NickSparkss but real men don't need six figures to get laid....

[motobecanlivecom]

Well what did they think was going to happen? Next why don't they put pyramids on a wheel and put pyramid shaped holes in the road...

[spankula123]

This reminds of liberal policy.

[BigErckleStudios]

haha the "Wow." at the end.

[tb112rene]

so, no burnout? no wheelspin at all?

BORING

[WayAhmhm]

GREAT!

now make a unicycle.

[mecanicman66]

pit ca va servirer a quoi ca sure le chemin pas de bump lol

[lookarond]

Dear Santa...

[skyhacker6]

@lookarond "Dear Santa" ?! You really want to drive a square-wheeled tricycle on concrete ? will shake a bit ^^

[lookarond]

@skyhacker6 I will drive on round things like the guy in the video :D

[NissanGTR93]

Now lets see you rise it in reverse!

[MrEviloreo]

this is why the chinese are beating us.... this is why.....

[NickSparkss]

Respect to the guys that built it, it's not easy to calculate exactly what shape would be needed to move the bike.

Sure, it's pretty useless in the real world, but they're physics students, this is part of their curriculum.

[Silverstar129]

And you just proved my gym teacher wrong by reinventing the wheel

[coasterpro]

It's an idiom come to life. Brilliant!

[charger334]

...and what's the point? i missed that part!

[ZombieBrainsForLunch]

It's so wrong to waste your time like that when you are attending an expensive school.

[halbo007]

Stupid and useless; Like so many things that come out of Texas.

[Mitza399]

100 mph =)):))

[andruha11234]

ohhh! i have an idea... what if we made the road smooth and the wheels round :O

[urbanjunior]

@andruha11234 i didn't think about that but it sounds like it could work. but maybe this would lead to the slow destroy of our planet. so let us put these ideas aside!

[ThePoopization]

oh boy must be fun breaking your bank to go to a shitty school to build utterly pointless shit like this

[TheRossimo]

whew thank god. the terrain where i live is nothing but evenly spaced, inverted hyperbolic cosine curves. Dumb circle wheels

[smoken81]

@TheRossimo LOL. that comment made me spit on my monitor and knock over my coffee cup

[TheBroodingTom]

@TheRossimo LOL xD

[JulianClutchy911]

wow...gay



[Gostalto]

jarthos123 dont be a tonsil! Really...?

[MultiHendo]

you fucking idiots

[adrianbrowne1984]

pointless !!

[aserta]

We have got the wrong roads. Quick make them half cylinders.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

Wow...the perfect solution to all of those roads with equally spaced and large bumps that I always want to ride my bike on but can't! Thanks science for solving a really pressing problem!

[MrRmjjmr]

I think you texans should test a square wheeled unicycle.... or square wheeled roller blades..... then post you're findings.

[kle114504]

are they canadian?

[MrRmjjmr]

@kle114504 TEXAS A&M... ya thats in Canada.... Texas is a Canadian Province....

[jarthos123]

hyperbolic cosines ain't make no loops like this video shows @ 0:23

[bmogan23]

is that how the roads are in canada to accomidate for the square wheels?

[juliug]

AHAHAHA

[alexororro]

So thats how life look without Anti-Aliasing..

[cclementi6]

Could you flip this around and put the hyperbolic cosine curves on the tricycle and squares on the pathway?

[cclementi6]

47 dislikes...why would you even...what?

[JoeBarnes95]

lets replace the round wheel with the round floor it will be much better

[mphello]

The cavewoman who invented the round wheel must be turning in her grave.

[mphello]

What did everyone expect? This is TEXAS!

[LR3DISC]

try a burnout whit this wheels ;-)

[sploshuaproductions]

Its MineCraft

[ThatGuyWhoFanDubs]

Cool... but, impracticable in an every day situation, why fix something that is not broken? I guess its cool to prove in science but other than that It will never catch on.

[ioanstefangurzau]

ok now turn left..

[MrrANDOM34]

would this work with a bicycle? or is some gyroscopic property lost by using squares instead of circles?

[JLambus]

Only an Aggie would think this up........ hook em horns!

[huntnpb]

@JLambus only a longhorn would watch a video on something they know nothing about solely for the purpose to advertise that they opted to be a hippie. If you could get passed your bias towards a school which you most likely do not or will not attend you might be able to appreciate the calculus involved in accomplishing this feat.

[JLambus]

@huntnpb Calm down now.... I was only joking. I think of the A&M-UT rivalry as a friendly one. I have friends at both school, and I even dated an Aggie once. I just made the comment to have fun with our schools' rivalry. Thought I might get a chuckle out of a longhorn, and who knows, maybe even an aggie. Appreciate calculus? Geez. Don't take yourself so seriously. I don't.

[MrAjahman]

people r getting straight up stupid a square wheel...seriously

[cmwebsiteservices]

The square wheeled tricycle: Making roads bumpy as fuck and speedbumps smooth as ass.

[Whitlow68]

In soviet russia ground drives on wheel

[gayfuckoffyoutub1000]

To all the aggies out there: round wheels work better.

signed,

a friendly longhorn

:D

[seasonedtoker]

reinventing the wheel is a pretty simple thing. but reinventing roads isn't :D

[NOLIMIT69NOLIMIT2000]

Ride it on the street pussy.

[waterwart]

Man on man.. the SHIT they teach you is school nowadays.

[JAyy781]

damn hippies!

[TheAnonynja]

I feel like this would've been best stopped at the conceptual stages.. like oh, look, squares can move forward on semicircles..cool. We don't need to actually build this to realize it works, right? Right, guys?

[andrewkbradshaw]

@TheAnonynja Actually they're not semicircles, but rather inverted hyperbolic cosine curves. It is a feat of calculus to design it, and of course we know it will work in advance. We built it because it would be fun to ride!

[KatyPetLuvr]

@andrewkbradshaw Magic. Got it.

[ineurodreams]

@andrewkbradshaw

Inverted-inverse about the vertical axis.

Hyperbolic refers to something related to or in shape of hyperbola (a type of curve). A hyperbola is an exaggerated curve.

Semi means partial and circle, so a part of a circle...which is a curve. So we have a partial curve, like TheAnonynja said or we have what you said and inverted exaggerated curve.

A semi circle will always be an inverted hyperbolic cosine curve. However, the inverse isn't always true.

[ganjafreak420]

@ineurodreams Win.

[Singetally]

@TheAnonynja You do know how the scientific method works right?

[TheAnonynja]

@Singetally This was not the testing of an unproven hypothesis, it was just the application of math to a bicycle.. I think it's kind of cool, but idk, it just seems like the subject of a problem set question, not a full physical representation. But what the hell, the guys had fun with it

[estripp420]

@TheAnonynja if only you were there to stop the first nuclear weapon being built.

[JLConawayII]

@TheAnonynja You really don't understand how a physicist's mind works, do you?

[TheAnonynja]

@JLConawayII thank you for the baseless insult, good sir. btw, this isn't very relevant to physics.. i mean, aside from the way that everything in life is relevant to physics

[JLConawayII]

@TheAnonynja What's your problem? I wasn't insulting you. I was just saying, we like to do crazy things. Why WOULDN'T you build a tricycle with square wheels? Obviously this begged for a working model.

[TheAnonynja]

@JLConawayII my bad, it just sounded really condescending to me. like i said- what the hell, the guys had fun with it. simply put.. the project is just silly, and there are two sides to that coin

[spankula123]

That's also called a progressive bicycle. The rich need to pay to redo all the sidewalks now.

[AngryKittehPoo]

fucking hipsters

[Rokkiteer]

Would be perfect for the roads in my town.

[robbbyyy25]

and they made this because............

[010000012]

notch would be proud

[GHSTR3CON7]

southpark canadians

[WillowFox]

That's a smooth ride on a consistently, perfectly engineered, straight, and clean road guys.

[Peter7Paul]

haha the comments here are hilarious.

[kirkles66]

yeah.thats practical.

[Grazony]

Now I can travel rooftops at blinding speeds.

[vindaloo9]

maybe the kid needs a girlfriend

[manouchk38]

Very original. Like it. The circular wheel is a paradigm difficult to break down!

[TheFrizzlfry]

That's an Aggie project.......

[MrMoparchris]

To much bored students out there?

[01iamaprofessional]

now try turning :D

[healonator]

herp derp

[garciarosa100]

Wow, must get good mileage on the highway, MPG divided by the SQUARE root of 2. 

[raider2661]

wow, this solves all of our problems!

[cadalate]

what about turning?



[HmccrazyT]

0:16

...well yeaah..

[AtomicProf]

UT knows to use circular wheels!

[samljer]

The world would look like a very different place if the wheel was invented as a square :D

[DjPakinzon]

try a wheelie :D

[jeenyus720]

@DjPakinzon you mean a squarie?

[DjPakinzon]

@jeenyus720 hahaha :D yepp

[MsH1h1h1h1]

can u turn?

[DieDaiGeneral]

haha it's a bike from south park Canada!

[ryanadams711]

I guess that's why it's the Physics Department and not the Engineering Department. Still a neat video though.

[dreamweaver961]

Guess I'm not wasting my money sending my kids to Texas A&M. They just went backwards in technology by a few thousand years. LOL

[Oshyrath]

Ha Ha, you still ride a tricycle.

[sasukesan767]

cool story bro

[gsizz1]

to defend Canadians one word or three not sure nvm... epicmealtime

[Spazum888]

now turn.....

[gabikafull]

this is big idiot

[MattdamanESK]

but... will it blend?

[nelcimpilot]

Que coisa inútil...

[baseballboy1545]

@iluvtoast100 no I wouldn't because it's useless for when I have a heart attack

[sulfacide]

you can only go in a straight line....... think about it.

[caseygtr]

Riding this on a flat road? Challenge accepted!

[gmcobalt99]

oh i get it now cool now if only it could change shape on command that would be awesome

[MegaRallycar]

try turning now, your going to have to change size in the road so basicsally a fail but cool

[silentg1211]

WOW a Canadian trike!

[69mrcrash]

FAIL



[baseballboy1545]

Stupid Americans, you don't need bikes to go to mcdonalds, you need an ambulance

[iluvtoast100]

@baseballboy1545 what if you were from america ?!?!? you wouldnt likethis much would you?!?!?!?

[realdad32]

that is the coolest piece of usless technology ever!

[afererer]

hahahaha creative.

[DarthHater100]

EPIC FAIL.

[alextroch]

but you cant turn...

[ftolmsteen]

Canadians.

[SpearWieldingOctopus]

Ah... This must be cycling branch of The Ministry of Silly Walks.

[minibikerider1]

wow lol next time i see bumps like that while riding down a path i will call you guys lol