So I thought about the physics of the rear wheel steering as per Big_dave's warnings and I realized he is almost certainly right. The rear wheel turning causes the rear end of the vehicle to travel in a direction opposite of that the front of the vehicle will be heading. This in turn torque the body and cause the real wheel to likely sputter across the road surface. Kinda like a semi trailer backing up and jacking at high speed.
So that brings us back to front wheel steering =)
What makes the idea of "wagon" steering work so poorly. The only issue I can see is with the varying frontal wheel base. The wheels spin independently from each still so I don't see issues with the effective differences between inner and outer wheels during a turn.
Thoughts?
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