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Re:Tesla Roadster by grkvlt on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:17PM (#15724484)

So the tires are acting like torsion springs then?

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Re:Tesla Roadster by andyjsong on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:00PM (#15725500)

It increases the footprint of the tire at the start, giving the car more grip. Here is a video: https://youtu.be/-VF0JwxQqcA?t=10m42s

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Re:Tesla Roadster by grkvlt on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:56AM (#15729441)

Thanks, that's really interesting - there's some amazing technology going into what I had previously assumed was a fairly boring static (modulo the rotation, of course) component of these vehicles.

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