Eli5: Why do cars have four wheels instead of three?

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Eli5: Why do cars have four wheels instead of three?

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There were attempts. [They didn’t go very well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8) (note: this is an exaggerated comedy skit but they *were* quite unstable), because as it happens, in turns most of the weight of the car is on the corners of the hull where a four wheel car has a wheel and a three wheel car has an air.