(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)
This is probably ai
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, there’s no way that this is true. (Seriously, just think about it for three seconds!)
Just put “swangas”, “elbow rims” or “wire wheels” into your favorite search engine. It’s a thing.
Then you can just think about it for three seconds and realize that it’s far too stupid to be real and therefore obviously some kind of internet hoax, like bonsai kittens or whatever your favourite internet hoax might be.
I don’t know. Why are semi trucks allowed to have these?

I see them all the time even though they seem like a liability for a professional driver.
You really don’t see them as much compared to when they were in their hay day, because they were/are a liability. But current ones are soft plastic with a thin metallic coating.
Fast rotating “soft plastic with thin metallic coating” will just as well mutilate or even kill pedestrians or cyclists in a collision. But then US Americans do not seem to care much about those.
I hope they like insurance claims



