4 Wheel Drive Too Much Traction

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Can you please explain your thought on this? It's common practice for teams to have robots longer than they are wide - 48 had a (in)famously long robot last year, and they were multiple regional winners. I agree that wider bases have less scrub, but never longer than wide?

If the team doesn't understand the fundamentals of the forces of scrub in a skid steer drive train, then it's probably best they steer clear of longer wheel bases (w/o dropped centers) until they do. Team 25 won Einstein last year, and they typically have the same setup (8WD, all touching the ground, all long configurations from year to year). The difference is, they understand what works, what doesn't, and why.