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Re: theoretical acceleration of a drive train

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Originally Posted by Jared View Post
People don't talk about the acceleration of a drive train because it's difficult to assign a single meaningful number, and people generally don't know what 1 m/s^2 looks like.
More easy to understand might be saying the robot can go from 0 to x in y seconds. For comparison, nobody says their car has a max acceleration of 40 mph/s, but rather that it can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
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