Eli5: Why can you feel the forces of the car more as a passenger than the driver
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If you put a steering wheel in front of the passenger for them to hold onto, they’d feel largely the same.
The rest would be about prediction/preparation. I drive tandem quite a lot on track, me and my buddy do alternate sessions and swap driver/passenger, and it’s really interesting how your perception changes- you feel way more “thrown around” if you’re in the first passenger session, but once you’ve done a session as driver you start to move and predict and react almost the same as you do as the driver, and suddenly you feel less like a sack of spuds. It even becomes intuitive to put foot pressure down as you enter braking zones etc.
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