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How wrong the trapezoid is, arm angle 15.6°

The difference between the outer wheel's angle and the angle that would put all four wheels on one circle. It is zero at straight ahead by construction — both wheels point forwards — and it reaches 2.06° at 35° of lock. "One hundred per cent Ackermann" names a condition this linkage meets at 1 angle and nowhere else, and no four-bar can do better than a handful: the condition is not a rational function of the crank angle, and the linkage is.

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