Why are cars made to be able to steer the front wheels instead of the wheels at the back?
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Go to Lowe’s/HD and watch people try to steer the flat carts that steer at the back. You don’t want them. We only use vehicles that street at the back door tight spaces like fork lifts.
Physics and shit. Have you ever tried to back a car at speed and for long distances? The small vector corrections that you make when traveling forwards are minimal, while–if made with the rear wheels–they would be amplified and wreak havoc on society.
2 biggest reasons are how sketchy anything rear steering is at any decent rate of speed, test this in an empty parking lot some night if your car will do more than 20 in reverse, and the fact when you rear steer the back end goes the opposite way when you begin to turn meaning if you turn at a stop light and someone is beside you, you will hit them
You would see countless people rolling their vehicles. Steering from the back allows for too much turning radius for a very fast moving vehicle that is primarily designed to go relatively strait, most of the time.
Ever push a shopping cart from the wrong end? That’s basically rear wheel steering. Turns out that you get a lot of undesirable behavior when steering from the rear. Front steering wants to straighten out of a turn, but rear steering tends to result in oversteer and fishtailing. When braking, the vehicle’s weight is more on the front wheels, so with front steering you retain control. And more simply, the driver sits at the front of the vehicle, so it’s mechanically simpler to connect to the steering wheel.