[ODE] Re: Simulating Wheels

[Steve Baker]

Adam D. Moss wrote:

> Most so-called flight sims figured this out
> many years ago (not that a car needs as much simplification as a
> plane!).

I design flight simulators for my day job (I work for Link Simulation)
and I can tell you that cars are MUCH harder to simulate than planes
(at least from a physics perspective).   The controls and instruments
are a lot more complex in a plane - but the handling of a car is
much more difficult to do well - and it's also much more important to
getting a realistic 'feel' to the simulation.

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