5th Wheel Driving - Ideals from the 50s

[Jimbeaux]

This seemed beneficial. Was it just too impractical?

http://www.flixxy.com/fifth-wheel-driving.htm

[Dog Star]

Or complex/expensive?

Love that video though - the size of those cars amazes me.

[hondafanatic]

I really thought when the voiceover said 'Even the worst driver'...he was then going to follow with 'Here she is parking into the garage'.

[OwenK]

That's a great idea, and I bet implementable now at not too much extra cost, especially if it was designed into the car from the start. I wonder why it's not been looked into much - people obviously are open to the idea of strange things to help parking - see Smarts parking sideways, Prius' robotic parallel parking, etc.

[MarJay]

How many car park prangs would that cause when someone misjudges the length of their car? How difficult would it be to seal the boot area from the weather?

Not a great idea IMO, solving a problem that doesn't really exist. If you want a car that is easier to park, buy a smaller car, not a huge American behemoth.

Yes, to some extent I'm being flippant

[Laurel Green]

Could spin the car around endlessly in the local car-park of a Friday evening with the boyz, without the need to replace the tyres the next morning.

[KeithE]

A slightly more recent version built into a Renault 5 in Egypt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHCu2qaCyxU