The T-180 is a type of vehicle featured in the 2008 ill-fated reboot of the Speed Racer Franchise. T-180 cars are distinguished in the ability to be able to turn the direction of their wheels 180 degrees. This allows them to face all their wheels in the direction of travel regardless of the direction of the body of the car itself, which is very helpful when flying down a track at 400+ miles per hour.
the actual main powerplant of the vehicle is supposed to be a small jet engine, but I installed conventional wheel propulsion as well, for reasons I will get into.
This particular model is a lot slower than those in the movie, and this is for ease of use.
The T-180 swivel system kicks in at about 40 mph, at speeds above which your vehicle will control more like a very fast hovercraft than an actual automobile. This is almost comparable to handling in zero gravity, as there is little friction induced by aligned wheels.
As such, turning with this T-180 looks like a long and prolonged drift, which, judging by the movie, seems to be accurate. It also looks really cool.
When you enter a slide (and you will) fear not, the rotation of the body is still under the control of the driver.
In order to actually change the direction of travel (a.k.a steer) you would have to enter a controlled slide, and use the direction of the engine thrust to effectively make a course correction to change the direction of travel.
The thrust of the jet engine is controlled by Throttle
However, if you want to enter a slide and stay in the slide, you could use the engine power, controlled by W and S to accelerate in the direction the wheels are facing.
Optionally, if you dont want to deal with the complexities of this meathod of driving, you just disable AG 8 and miss out on the entire point of me building this.