re: "Stepping out" over bumps

[Jay Negrin <jmnegrin@domain.elided>]

A good friend who is much more into vehicle dynamics than myself has said
often that this behavior is common with live axle cars.  If this is indeed the
case, I wondered, then why?

Could be, that if the bump(s) are sharp enough, that the rear tires could lose
their grip on the pavement.  Loss of traction at the back end equals
oversteer, does it not?  It may be transient in nature, and control, i.e.
traction, is restored in very short order.

If this were the case, and the rate of travel were near the limit of adhesion,
then a bump like this could cause the car to spin, back end first.

Am I all wet on this, or does it sound as reasonable to the experts out there
as it does to me.

Jay Negrin
AR So Cal

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