These Freaky Omni-Capable Wheels Would Make Parallel Parking Stupidly Easy

While the surfaces of these prototype rims - built by the uploader himself - seem to be slick and therefore useless for the road, he claims that they “can have the same build characteristics (siping, grooves, rubber compounds etc.) as regular tires”. What’s particularly interesting is the wheels are bolt-on items on a regular Toyota Echo which hasn’t needed to be modified to accept them.

It does seem like a cool concept, but we’d want to know exactly how much they weigh - you’d think the new rims would be on the heavy side, adding a hell of a lot of unsprung mass.

Creator William Liddiard calls these “proof of concept prototypes”, so it’ll be interesting to see how he develops the idea.

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