Paying attention to this thread, rolling tires will steer, sliding tires won't.
So with all those people experimenting in parking lots, better make sure your
next stay at the Holiday Inn Express is on the second floor so the car that
slides into the building doesn't get you.
ryan marro wrote:
> Because the coefficeint of rolling friction is less than the coefficeint of
> static friction, the ideal situation would be to cause the tires to stop
> rolling and drag themselves on whatever surface they are on. The
> coefficeint of friction (rolling or static) is based on the surface
> composition. On snow and ice, the coefficeint of friction is close to nill.
> Am I an engineer? No, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
> Actually, I was just bored and thought I would increase the list message
> volume. :-)
> Ryan
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