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It's because understeer is more desirable in a mass-market car than oversteer. The average driver's natural reaction, which is to quickly lift off the accelerat
by tadfisher 11y ago
It's because understeer is more desirable in a mass-market car than oversteer. The average driver's natural reaction, which is to quickly lift off the accelerator and jab the brakes, leads to disastrous results in an oversteer situation.
- D_Alex 11y agoWhat you are describing is "lift-off oversteer", which is a function of vehicle's weight distribution, and not the rear vs front wheel drive. A desirable mild understeer is easy enough to engineer into a RWD car. There is also "power-on oversteer" which will occur in a RWD car without suitable control if the road conditions are bad enough, eg. on ice. "Power-on understeer" occurs in FWD cars. The appropriate solution here for both FWD and RWD is electronic stability control (which is pretty much standard at least where I live (Australia)), and particularly easy to implement with electric drive.