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Re: Team 007 - 2008: Thunderbot - Drive

One quick comment, if you work on the lengths in the steering linkage to get a higher percentage of ackerman, you'll have tighter turns with less skidding. As in, an ideal ackerman steering system has the axes of the two bars attached to the wheels crossing at the midpoint of the rear axle at all times.

Otherwise very impressive, and very compact.
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