Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car

at the Ford Museum in Detroit, MI on 1/06/08

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[rareproperty]

The woman in the back of the car appears to be Amelia Earhart who I think ordered one of his cars but he could not afford to build it...

[xparfum]

Fuller was such a visionary.

[RobertKaydoo]

I have also read that the Dymaxion got 30+ mpg. Very impressive considering what other cars were getting at the time.

Peace.

[Kindpeter]

I would totally love this as a motor home camper!

[Car Podcast]

visto en carpodcast-com-uy

[spacehelmetforacow]

Yeah, a reliant robin. but those are a lot more unstable then the dymaxion car, by virtue of having its one wheel in front and two in back, rather then two in front and one in back.

[tincoffin]

At 0.37 I could swear she has no children with her by 1.00 she has about 10 getting out of the car. Perhaps there were other problems. The man didn't need his hands to steer -we know that

[FLCLCBSC]

Shallow Gravy tour bus!

[attemptedfunny]

sorry to bust your bubble and dismantle your scientific and historical theories but maybe you should research the dymaxion. the cars were extremely easy to control, and park, and were safer then cars of that time, and they also got better gas ileage as well(30+mpg). the only big flaw was that it was hard to control at high speeds, and production stopped when one person suffered a fatality while testing the car

[tincoffin]

Here in UK three wheelers used to be quite popular as they attracted less tax . If you put the single wheel at the front It was probably better to get out and walk if you came to a corner.They still sold probably to kill your mother in law but with the single wheel at the back as here they worked quite well. They are still made in small numbers as fun machines.

[O Bob]

Too big for any advantage in cities (+ gas and visibility issues). Too dangerous for motorways. There is a great reason why we don't have mass produced three wheeled cars around today. They are notoriously unstable.

The way the back-end swings round looks lethal to pedestrians.

Nice example of forward thinking though. Looks like a detached passenger section of an airship.