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by emerongi 3908 days ago
I think it's good to have the car not roll perfectly straight, but a little bit to one side. If it rolls too straight, it's going to bump from one side to the other and lose much more energy.
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The energy you lose from lateral collisions has very small impact on the forward movement

rolling as straight as possible might bump from side to side, but between the left and right side the wheels will be rotating with as little friction as possible.

deliberately going to one side guarantees that the wheels will never reach max speed.

Have you done A/B testing on that? I'm genuinely curious about which would win.