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the rear wheel steering on the Dymaxion was its fatal flaw, I think. I think the wheel layout could be changed, and it would make a very good small bus.
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Fly-by-wire three-wheel drive, three-wheel steering?
The fatal flaw was being in traffic with a politician's drunk son in another car. The Dymaxions logged 250,000 miles [citation needed]. The proposal drawings had an horizontal elevator so the rear wheel could fly off the ground. Remember it wasn't a car, but a vehicle to test the ground taxiing characteristics of an Omni-Directional Transport. Bucky didn't think small.
His next, un-built design had a variable wheelbase with in-hub motors and 6 wheels in a reverse trike arrangement.