How does the children vehicle where you continously turn left and right to gain speed work? would that work for adult vehicles?

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How does the children vehicle where you continously turn left and right to gain speed work? would that work for adult vehicles?

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I don’t really get the physics but they’re discussed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlasmaCar

You can get adult sized versions but they’re nowhere near the size of a regular car. The motion depends on your ability to move the handle bars. So it wouldn’t work any better for cars than pedaling it like a bike. And why use that wiggle motion mechanically when you can just drive the wheels directly?