Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car

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

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Buckminster
• Fuller
• Dymaxion
• Car
• Ford
• Museum

[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.

[tincoffin]

@unitivity 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.

[clearlogicify]

@SESConferenceExpo 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.

[Rogerlowrey2222]

@unitivity Good post, thanks for the truth, You Tube spreads to much false info

[natureartists]

Cool Car. Looks something like the art car I have been thinking of making.

[Zeno1999]

@unitivity < I've seen 3 wheeler in India, large and small versions with one tire in the front few decades ago and they still have these- better fuel economy as fuel costs 3-4 times more there.

[unitivity]

THIS CAR WAS NOT A DEATH TRAP. It had a very low center of gravity.

I was told by bucky that when you turn the wheel it jacked up the rear a little

and if you let the wheel go it would go straight. THe accident you are speaking of

was a cab ran a stop sign and hit it in the side. it was so far ahead of the others they look like boxes. check it out in the film. It was a design that will come back.

[Capitancanguro1]

The design is flaw, you can't drive at high speed with rear steering.

[SkengRudebwoy]

@moonlightdsn and hemp oil?

[cadceddddd]

@ultimatezeldafan101 The dymaxion car was a complete death trap. the center of gravity was too high and the wheel base was too narrow. One was "bumped" on a roadway in Chichago and it went out of control and crashed, killing the driver and severely injuring everyone else on board. It was a wonderfull example of the impracticality of over-engineering and the dissregard of physics.

[ultimatezeldafan101]

The dymaxion was a GREAT car

ford or dodge should make a new dymaxion with extra's like modernisation

fix the three wheel thing (it tipped over killed a person with three wheels)

so it will still have three wheels

because it is a great car!

like this comment if you want ford to make one