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Re: Coaxial crab stalling

As John said, if you design your gear ratios so that the wheels slip instead of stalling the motors, the situation you've described won't happen.

If the motor is driving near stall and the wheels begin to spin, that offers less resistance than fighting against the steering controls, and thus, the wheels will spin before the drive motors start fighting against the steering motors.
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