2023-07-29 08:01:45
In the universe of unusual vehicles, here is this machine equipped with 18 wheels which behaves like a caterpillar to overcome obstacles. We are always looking for his interest…
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Here is one of the strangest vehicles. Is it a motomoto, the equivalent of a snowmobile? Difficult to characterize this machine with 18 wheels. Its prototype was designed by a Finnish company which bears the apt name of “18 wheels” (18Wheels). Its particularity is that each of the wheels of this electric all-terrain vehicle has its own independent suspension, but also its traction. Thus, instead of a 4 x 4, it is indeed an 18 X 18!
The process gives the machine capabilities equivalent to those of a caterpillar. Its suspension arms tilt backwards and, thanks to them, the vehicle can pass without loss of speedspeed or inclination of obstacles 20 centimeters high. The vehicle seems to have small legs with which it spans everything in its path. It can thus pass over a tree trunk without the vehicle or its driver being abruptly.
As this video shows, the prototype is able to overcome obstacles such as tree trunks regarding twenty centimeters high. To pass it, the suspension arms bend forward. The machine is similar to a kind of caterpillar. © 18Wheels
What future for this machine?
To turn, the wheels turn in the desired direction. Given the large number of wheels, the electronic system must be complex enough to synchronize them correctly in order to perform a maneuver. It remains to be seen what the commercial future of such a Noone and then, given the number of wheels and the complex mechanics, its maintenance should prove to be complicated and expensive.
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