Lojcs,

Those are awfully flat tires

PugJesus,
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Smooth, to prevent snow from building up in the grooves!

Unfortunately, it also made it so they couldn't grip the ice and would spin fruitlessly in place.

Bit of a problem machine, this one.

qx128,

See?! Proof that Cybertruck is copying earlier designs!

PugJesus,
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I bet this one could take a sledgehammer, though.

MrJameGumb,
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I just looked it up! It apparently only ever really worked when they drove it in reverse, and it was considered such a failure that it was abandoned in Antarctica and got buried under the ice until some people dug it up in the 50s and then lost it again, and it’s current whereabouts are unknown!

PugJesus,
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To be fair, if I'm a failed prototype scientific machine, 'Buried under the shifting Antarctic ice and lost forever' is a helluva grave.

bulwark,

There’s a pretty good video on YouTube that details it’s failure. The Russians also had something similar and I think they where more successful at it. youtu.be/pW0eZRoQ86g?si=4JCqtCmS1mMLDOve

Brunbrun6766,
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Surely you meant aborted

PugJesus,
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abortive
adjective
abor·​tive ə-ˈbȯr-tiv
Synonyms of abortive
1
obsolete : prematurely born
2
: FRUITLESS, UNSUCCESSFUL
3
: imperfectly formed or developed
4
: tending to cut short

The Snow Cruiser was shipped to Antarctica, but it performed poorly and the expedition itself was cut short due to the US entry into WW2.

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