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Omnimedium Transport Sequence:
"I did not design an automobile; I was not putting a car into production. I was merely designing a prototype omnimedium vehicle. The propulsion was up forward and the steering was in the rear-- for ruddering: that’s the way nature does it-- with front traction and rear steering.
"Take a wheelbarrow. You push it and a bad bump will hit you in the stomach. But if you pull a wheelbarrow it will not skid… The front-steered car, due to kingpins, can only turn at about 34 degrees, without a rudder post. But with a rudder post you can turn at 90 degrees. And the center of gravity was so low that you could not turn it over; it was like a gun carriage. At 15 m.p.h. the inboard wheel could turn on a one-foot radius.
"It could carry eleven passengers. It was 19 feet long. But it tended to head into cross winds. So very fine controls were needed. So we had all custom hardware and shives. The tires would tend to distort.
“One of the oldest creatures known to man is the horseshoe crab. It is designed to go across streams. It is shaped in”
