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On a car with all-wheel drive, how does the engine provide the angled front wheels with power?
You could also include front-wheel drive in your question. It would be enlightening for you to look at what radio control rock crawlers do. It has much of the excess of a full-sized car stripped away.
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Governors and acceleration effect on IC engine
Governers aren't really a thing on road-going vehicles. Governors are used on constant speed engines to maintain an engine speed. Single speed road vehicles aren't very useful.
A governor works by ...
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Governors and acceleration effect on IC engine
The only cars which contain governed engines are those which have a device called cruise control installed. When turned on, this device measures and then "locks onto" the current speed of ...
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