Thursday, December 16, 2010

I Have an Idea

So I have this idea and I’m getting sick of car manufacturers not being able to come up with it since 1672!

And being the *cough* awesome painter that I am, I made these “sketches” to demonstrate my genius idea (which I’m pretty sure many people thought of before me but no one was talented enough to turn it into exquisite pieces of art like I did). Anyway, if you come here regularly then you’ve read one (or 10) posts about how driving in Amman is awful and how the streets are (I don’t want to say poorly planned because they weren’t planned in the first place) not driving-friendly.

So without further ado, I present to you “The Sideways Wheel”! Your new solution to parallel parking and other problems. Here’s what I’m thinking: they place a couple of wheels under the car that are perpendicular to the original four wheels it already has, that way, the car can move sideways too!

The driver can make the wheels appear and disappear when s/he needs them to, I’ll leave the “how” to mechanical engineers because it’s not my job here.

Let me explain the benefits; if a normal car looks like this:



Then my new modified BackForthAndSideways car would look like this, see the wheel?


(If you're worried about balance or the other four wheels I'd be happy to explain further.)

Example:

Suppose the blue car and the green car are parked, you’re driving the red car and want to parallel park:



Instead of doing this:



You’ll just go like this:



And you don’t even need extra space in front of your car or behind it!

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Another case, the cars are stopped at the red light and the way is open for cars that want to go right BUT, the dude in the green car is blocking the exit so the dude in the black car goes nuts and starts honking non-stop, and so do all the ones behind him:



So green car dude moves a little bit to the side with the help of his super-cool sideways wheel, red and blue cars help him out a bit and shift to the left:



Black car dude is happy!



Yeah?


* don’t you dare mock my sketches. They took me forever to do.
** I heard that some guy in Egypt created something like that but no one gave him any credit, maybe he didn’t have a blog.

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actually i did not read the post yet, but the sketches are great!! Rand u are a talented girl, thanks for ur job for all this creativity
P.S. I know how much they take believe me, what program did u used?
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2 replies · active 746 weeks ago
I got the picture of the car off Google Images, w ba3dain a simple Paint program ;) oh the power of the paint bucket and straight lines!

Allah yojbor b khatrek! :') Thanks
wallah?!! enu shu hal 9aber had? ma shallah ma shallah, o an akunt bafaker khulgek thayeg :D
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Or we can do this.

1 reply · active 746 weeks ago
My way works when you don't wanna chip a nail :p
Very nice sketches Rand :)
her is the Egyptian video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIHy2HFrwf0
he is talented too
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1 reply · active less than 1 minute ago
Cool! Only my car has more than one wheel :D
Zaman 3annek :*
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I mean "here" ^_^
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Wonderful ideas! When I first moved to Jordan I thought painting lines on the road to keep people in their lanes was a novel idea. They finally did it, but then everyone started driving ON the lines. YOUR idea shows great promise in Jordan. Proceed to the patent office.
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Yeah about those lines, they shouldn't be just a drawing, I think they should be 3D, like blocks, kinda like the ones that separate parking spots in Mecca Mall, that is the only way you can get Jordanians to stay between them!
But maybe the municipality should start by making the streets themselves straight! Because how are you gonna force people to stay in a straight line when the street is 4 lanes then suddenly 2 lanes then 3 lanes... forever?
OMG you are a GENIUS!!!!
1 reply · active 745 weeks ago
Genius :D I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere, must be one of those Japanese inventions... I wonder why it hasn't been put to use by now
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1 reply · active 745 weeks ago
There you Abed is telling us why below :)
I've been resisting the urge to comment here but I can't help it

your idea is not possible, it can work if the car is standstill (but it isn't effient either, the Egyptian dude idea isn't efficient, think how you gonna replace that middle tire?) .

If the car is accelarating, however, it will go upside down if you use a middle tire ! it's like using the hand brake while driving 120 km/hr

sorry lol
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2 replies · active 745 weeks ago
Dude, replacing the tire is not a big deal, just like they fix all that stuff under the car, they can replace tires.

Also, if the car is accelerating, why would you use the sideways wheel? When you're done with it you can just pull it up and you go back to normal mode, look at whisper's video, he pulls is up when he's done :p because you only the handbrakes when you need them right?

I told you mechanical engineers will take car of the little details, party pooper :p
lovely blog just addded u to my blogroll :)
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Kuwaitiful · 743 weeks ago

I can't help but assume your female, as guys never complain about this. Please don't take this offensively, rather logically.

The idea has flaws, mostly because the 4 standard times will give the 5th middle tire a very hard time to move.

Still, credit must be due to creativity!
I never had a problem with parallel parking except in Jordan. What I do there is that I myself take the spot of 2 cars parked parallel to each other when I park, I leave a big space between my car and the pavement so that there isn't enough room to parallel-park next to me. also I point my wheels outwards so it gives the impression that my car is about to take off, and other cars will stay away from it.
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