Turning Quality Metrics

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Originally Posted by JVN

My thinking is...
Mechanically balancing scrub to prevent overshoot will help with driver smoothness, but are sacrifices being made to achieve this? What do you give up to help your driver deal with overshoot?

Good discussion.

-John

I totally agree with your nonadrive experience, but there should probably be a giant * which you eluded to about talented and/or experienced driver.

Less experienced drivers tend to do better with more scrub. that is part of the reason our robots have more scrub at teh start of teh season than the end of the season.

You can set up a front drive car to have slight over steer (likely to spin), and a a driver with reasonable car control on a racetrack will be way faster than one that understeers. That being said, there is a reason why even street performance cars have understeer.

Switchables though get a category of their own. I really enjoyed our 2011 chassis, and I am a huge fan of the 469 style caster drives.

PS, I would love to have watched a talent show between the 217 and 148 drivers in 2010. I got the opportunity to watch a 217 practice, and the speed an maneuverability was absolutely amazing.