what is it in racing game code that so often results in the car rapidly spinning and flying around colliding into everything?

Question

seems like every game with a car has this happen occasionally, and I was wondering what the underlying theme is in how vehicles are coded in these games that makes it such a common glitch?

[example](https://v.redd.it/w1qkg6qji2ca1)

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Answer 1

no loss of energy upon impact, and fully rigid objects cause speed energy to fully be transfered to speed energies in other directions without deformation or intermolecular friction slowing things down