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Originally Posted by Kevin Ainsworth

I'm curious about the short length verses wide width when the center wheels are touching the carpet but the outside wheels aren't. During acceleration the four back wheels are the only ones touching and that scares me also. Our experience is that this makes for a twitchy bot when turning and an unstable bot when trying to drive fast in a straight line. Anyone have experience with this?

Teams have been running 8WD robots in this configuration for years without issue. The same could be said about 6WD drop center robots only running on 4 wheels at a time and yet it is probably the most popular setup in FRC.