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Originally posted by foursixnine
In theory having more torque on one side of your drive would hinder straight line acceleration since one side would be accelerating faster than the other provided there wasn't any wheel spin. In other words the robot would have a tendency to turn in one direction when accelerating.
So the robot would want to turn in an arc. That would be terrible in a game like this, huh?
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