Video: are these the wheels of the future?

Posted on 23-05-2014 at 15:08 by JordyS – 28 Comments”

A newly developed wheel for wheelchairs can the car of the future is drastically going to change.

You can probably not imagine how it is to ride without suspension. Yet that is how people in a wheelchair should be moving forward. Not always easy, so also suffered an Israeli farmer. He broke his pelvis, but wanted to still work on the land can do, writes Wired.com.

This farmer developed a concept that shock absorbers and wheels as combines, his idea also can be applied to existing wheelchairs. To make a long story short: Softwheel picked up the idea and brings this autumn, two new wheels on the market for wheelchairs and bicycles. Also the car industry are watching with interest.

In fact, Daniel Barel, CEO of Softwheel has the first discussions with Daimler is already behind the back. Although he did not expect the concept of the one on the other day to be applied on cars, he sees according to Wired certainly possibilities. So We have some time to go to the idea to get used to. (via apparata.nl)