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Old 09-12-2014, 09:55 AM   #2 (permalink)
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The concept of crab steering is quite interesting, even for full size cars at high speed.

I can see by how much side wind affects fuel economy. Allowing the car to turn into the wind a bit would help a great deal.
Should not be too hard to do on a FWD car, especially on those that came equipped with 4 wheel steering.

I doubt whether it is road legal. It would also shift the headlight beam pattern.
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