What is this thing and why don't they make them anymore? This is exactly what I need to navigate the Los Angeles streets. Potholes would be a worry of the past. Even small vehicles in my way would be a worry of the past. You could roll right over a Fiat 500 in this thing. It goes to show you how much more of a problem hills must have been back in the day. Some guy felt it was a big enough problem that he built a vehicle specifically for combating the problem.
What we don't see is the seconds after this photo was taken when the whole machine gets thrown off balance and crushes the man under its mighty weight. Isn't that what any of us really want in the world? To be crushed by our own creation?