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The world's most incredible inventions that never took off

Failure to launch
Flying cars
Flying cars
Nuclear-powered cars
Nuclear-powered cars
Amphibious cars
Amphibious cars
3D TV
3D TV
Scent-enhanced movies
Scent-enhanced movies
Jet packs
Jet packs
Internet refrigerators
Internet refrigerators
Self-balancing scooters
Self-balancing scooters
Electric pedal cycles
Electric pedal cycles
1990s VR
1990s VR
Betamax
Betamax
HD DVD
HD DVD
Five-wheel self-parking cars
Five-wheel self-parking cars
Wearable computers
Wearable computers
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Courtesy OCW

Five-wheel self-parking cars

A series of hydraulic pumps and gears would push out the fifth wheel from the rear, so the driver could rotate the back of the car and glide into the space with ease. Cadillac shelved the project but Walker carried on designing parallel parking systems into the late 1970s.
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Daniel Coughlin

08 March 2018

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