BUCKMINSTER FULLER’S DYMAXION CAR CLIP

From Robert Snyder’s 80-minute documentary, “The World of Buckminster Fuller.“ (c) Masters & Masterwork Productions, Inc. . DVD available at Stream available at Transcript: In 1933 I turned the money which I had been given into cash which I had in my pocket and I arrived in Bridgeport, Connecticut to produce this new ground taxing quality of the omni medium transport, cause its just going to go on the ground I knew people would call it an automobile. It wasn’t designed just to be an automobile at all. She was so extraordinarily stable my center of gravity was very very low and for the first vehicle that ever had the center of gravity forward of the midpoint of the wheel base. It did prove to be a very good vehicle and did have very high efficient I had eleven passengers I averaged over 22 miles to the gallon. Sometimes I got as much as 30 with eleven passengers - that is very, very high. The front steered cars with the kingpins can only steer up to 34 degrees angle. My rear rudder post I could turn so I could give you 90 degrees rudder if I wanted. This meant then that when I want to come in to a park there is space that is, say, six inches long than my Dymaxion car. I would simply bring my nose into the curb and then throw my rear wheel sideways and she went in flop like that.