i need a power point presentation on fifth wheel parking concept
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It is the part of the driver test that every teenager fears more: parallel parking.
And new drivers are not the only ones who do not like parallel parking, of course. So let's go back in time to consider an ingenious innovation that made it much easier to squeeze into a tight spot. In the 1950s, a man named Brooks Walker invented the "Fifth Driving Wheel," wrote Old Cars Weekly. The system used a hydraulic pump and spare vehicle tire to guide the vehicle in and out of parking spaces. You could also turn the car into a full circle.Walker created a prototype in his own Packard Cavalier. (He was from the San Francisco Bay Area, where steep streets can make parallel parking especially difficult.)
Walker demonstrated "the fifth wheel of driving" in numerous automobile shows. "With new cars getting bigger and parking spaces getting smaller ... an inventor has developed something to calm the biker's headache," a news story enthused. But the big car companies did not jump in the car.The inventor apparently spent the next 20 years fiddling with the idea, with the ultimate goal of making the system "a bolt kit that could be applied to any car without changes in its basic structure," wrote Old Car Weekly. Watch the video below to see how the fifth-wheel wheel worked: