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What causes a toy car to turn when you push it across a flat surface?

I was just playing with a toy car of mine. The wheels don’t turn on the car, but whenever I pushed it across the kitchen counter, it also turned to the left or the right. Why doesn’t it ever go straight?

i had a similar problem while building a mousetrap car.

the wheels always remain straight, the the car turns.

i found that the problem was because one of the axles of the car was not level with the chassis of the car itself. this was causing more weight to be on one side of the car.

i know its hard to imagine, but if there is more weight on…lets say the left side of the car… it will raise the coefficient of friction on that side essentially making that wheel(s) on that side spin slower. if the left wheels are spinning slower than the right wheels, the right wheels will travel farther, making the car turn.

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