VEHICLE DYNAMICS / 03

Traction Workshop

Feel the grip. Measure the stop.

Tire grip

Hold throttle to accelerate. Use A/D to steer; Space brakes. Enter every teal test gate, then stop inside the marked finish zone. Change tire grip between runs and compare stopping distance.

Model, controls & source

Adapted pakastin/car MIT acceleration, heading, angular-velocity and drag loop. Added lateral tire grip, braking, telemetry and test-course goals. A qualitative planar model, without a full tire force curve.

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