Back in 1967, California-based Gyro Transport Systems built a prototype vehicle known as the Gyro-X. The automobile had just two wheels, one in front and one in the back and, as the car’s name implies ...

This video showcases a self-balancing gyroscope car from the 1960s that never reached production. It explores the mechanics ...

Gyroscopes are perfect to damper short impulses of external forces but will eventually succumb if a constant force, like gravity, is applied. Once the axis of rotation of the mass aligns with the axis ...

Alex Tremulis was an eclectic visionary who saw the future in swoops, curls, bubble tops, and hand-formed metal. At the precarious age of 19, without any training, he landed at Cord Automobile and ...

Harley-Davidson has a lot of work to do if it’s going to successfully transition from its current path of best-selling but waning heavyweight cruiser-style motorcycles into segments that attract a ...

Of all the zany car technologies I’ve read about a gyro car isn’t one of them. From what my simple man-brain can discern, the Gyro-X, revealed to the world at the 1961 Detroit Auto Show, is a ...

Nashville’s Lane Motor Museum is well known for its collection of restored misfit automobiles, including everything from three-wheelers to amphibians to even the propeller-driven Helicron concept from ...

Gyroscopes are one of those physics phenomena that are a means to many ends, but can also enjoyed as a fascinating object in their own right. Case and point being [Hyperspace Pirate]’s ...