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The current record seems to be 1,536 wheels. Mammoet, the heavy-lift company, ganged together enough self-propelled modular transporters [1] to move a ship on land.[2] Each unit has 8 independently powered and steered axle lines, for 16 wheels. As many modules as necessary can be bolted together to make a huge moving platform. They're all networked, and coordinate steering and power.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3YvOe0ZgE

[2] https://www.facebook.com/Mammoetglobal/videos/spmt-world-rec...

Alternative upload for [2] on Youtube https://youtu.be/5TosI6r-5_o

The page disqualifies combinations where a "propelling unit" can be driven separately from a "trailer". This seems to fall under that same classifications; this is multiple attached vehicles, not a single vehicle.

Landmaster from Damnation alley is missing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmaster

Why did I scroll through this entire list?!

Because otherwise you would've missed the ME's version of a test suite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_PLR

The stylings of Old Web-formatted content tend to be that way.

Off topic, but Douglas Self is also the author of several remarkably good audio electronics books. For example, http://www.douglas-self.com/ampins/books/ssad3.htm .

https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/sad-fate-worlds-longest-...

They say it's been restored:

https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/with-26-wheels-and-se...

The 9-wheeler does have brakes, it's a fixed gear bike - so you just have to stop pedalling to do a hard brake.

I would say it has a way to stop and slow down, but a fixie does not have brakes by any definition of the word brake.

Merriam Webster for break (ˈbrāk)

> 1 : a device for arresting or preventing the motion of a mechanism usually by means of friction

> 2 : something used to slow down or stop movement or activity

I think it holds.

No HTTPS? Come up to the post-Snowden era!

HTTPS is indeed a good thing, but I actually felt some nostalgia looking at this site. It reminds me of the independent passion projects people made in FrontPage in the late 1990s, before Wikipedia and Facebook.

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