Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 4, 2015 @04:11PM from the good-for-navigating-those-places-where-you-can't-get-a-car-anyway dept.

Zothecula writes: The Swincar Spider is a remarkable tilting 4-wheeler concept that boasts absolutely ridiculous rough terrain capabilities. Each wheel has its own electric hub motor and is independently suspended on a spider-like limb. The result is a vehicle that leans into fast turns like a motorcycle, but can also happily go up or down a 70-percent gradient, ride across a 50-percent gradient that puts the left wheels a couple of feet higher than the right ones, or ride diagonally through ditches that send the wheels going up and down all over the place like a spider doing leg stretches.

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Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain

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