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[Bill Elliott]

>
>I also have to disagree with Bill that "when you completely lose front
>traction, you also lose steering. But thanks to physics, that doesn't
>occur until quite a bit further up the speed scale." I totally lost
>directional ability in a Citation X-11 once just pulling away from a
>stop sign on engine torque alone! The car went straight, towards
>oncoming traffic, but at the last moment gained enough traction to shoot
>off towards the proper lane. 
>
>  
>
Very few people lose traction accelerating and find themselves in a 
dangerous situation. It's much more critical to retain traction
when slowing or coming to a stop, so my comments were based on that sort 
of situation.

If you cannot keep traction when slowly accelerating from a stop, then 
you have the wrong tires for the situation and it really
wouldn't make much of a difference what the drivetrain design was.

Bill


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