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Re: Crab Steering on Regolith

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
That is something I dont understand either. The wheels are molded from a uniform material and there is no tread pattern so I dont see how friction would be different. Maybe it is due to the plastics grain or something like that.
Yeah, I was playing with a wheel yesterday and the only non uniform part i noticed was the grain of the plastic, to me it seemed like there was a substantial difference between the wheel sliding inline with itself and it sliding along its axis


Well, now that I think about it, would just running your wheels backwards give u better stopping than turning your wheels sideways???
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