why do my cars just randomly turn right outta no where?

[2024 Nissan Z]

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[Nadeox1]

You need to give more information:
What vehicle?
What configuration?
What you use to drive?

If you use a powerful vehicle, chances is that you are seeing Torque Reaction in action.
It's completely normal, you need to correct that behavior by steering (of course, using a keyboard and not pressing anything, don't expect the vehicle to just go straight. We continuously correct the steering when driving in reality)

[nismo]

your title is vague and the post itself is bare with no information

please elaborate.

[Charlie Kelly]

Based one what i'm assuming is what happened, you hit a rough bump, slightly damaged the suspension or deflated the tire a bit and you pull to the right really bad.

[2024 Nissan Z]

Originally posted by Charlie Kelly:

Based one what i'm assuming is what happened, you hit a rough bump, slightly damaged the suspension or deflated the tire a bit and you pull to the right really bad.

No whenever I spwan a car and just drive forward on flat land some cars will randomly turn right

[Charlie Kelly]

Originally posted by Swift - Silver:

Originally posted by Charlie Kelly:

Based one what i'm assuming is what happened, you hit a rough bump, slightly damaged the suspension or deflated the tire a bit and you pull to the right really bad.

No whenever I spwan a car and just drive forward on flat land some cars will randomly turn right

If you're using digital input you're most likely giving the car full throttle. What car is it you're driving?


What happens on RWD cars where the engine spins clockwise is that the drivers side of the car is actually lifting upwards, or trying to, and the left side is pushing down. This is just physics and it can cause steering irregularity.


FWD cars suffer the same problem too because the transmission is trying to lift up the front of the car, but generally FWD cars don't make the power to actually achieve that.

Here's a video of this effect (at 0.26)

https://youtu.be/IWEwbDDJZOk?t=26s

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

make sure a joystick isn't also plugged in.

failing that, drive a 4 cylinder car and see if it does that, get used to slower cars before you drive ones that can squeal the tires bare.
Torque steer can be a bit unfriendly, too, where most of the power gets put down from one of the two driving wheels. With certain differential setups especially on older cars, the majority of the power will come out of one wheel.
Even a 1998 General Motors make Minivan will torque steer if you 'romp on it' enough.

If your driving with a keyboard (like I do), then get used to a lesser powerful car, before you graduate to the more powerful sports cars and hate-tanks (Moonhawk, Barstow).
Use driving aids like Electronic Skid Control (ESC) and Anti-Lock brakes to help lessen the vehicle's ability to wipe out due to the full-on or full-off nature of a keyboard input device.

Driving in this game is some of THE most realistic you can get in any computer simulation. It's pretty neat to be honest, and the more you drive in the game (I've logged THOUSANDS of hours, despite what Steam says, as I don't run it through Steam almost ever), the better you'll get.

Sports cars are still hard to drive without lots of caution here, but the 88 Pessima with a stage 1 or 2 turbo, with all wheel steering (AWS) is pretty forgiving, just make sure to upgrade the radiator and oil cooler (if it has an oil cooler), if you drop a turbo in, so you don't blow it up.

Lots of quick rapid inputs as quick as you can modulate the keys on/off will help a lot and will be much better than butterfingering it up by mashing keys.
If they car starts to slide, it will naturally want to point in the direction the momentum is taking it, if correcting the steering is doing nothing but making it worse, don't mash the brakes, just let go of the inputs for about a second and let the car regain it's footing. If you spin out and try to accelerate, the car will naturally be pulled in the direction you're accelerating, even if that's into a wall now because the car is pointing sideways.
Like-wise, if IRL, and you skid in the snow while turning, letting the steering wheel back most (or sometimes all) of the way and not mashing brakes/throttle will snap the car out of the skid like you snapped your fingers and did magic. I have done this a few times in almost two decades of driving (where I used to live, it snowed a lot, and I never owned a 4WD vehicle, just FWD cars, but I almost never had an issue getting to work in it).
So yes, entirely, due care is required with powerful cars, but if you use the 80s or the 90s pessima with a 4 cylinder engine and front wheel drive, you should be okay, and as I said, the AWS model is very forgiving on the 80's pessima, as it's my map-tester to this day.

[2024 Nissan Z]

Originally posted by Beamng.mapper.Bob.Blunderton:

make sure a joystick isn't also plugged in.

failing that, drive a 4 cylinder car and see if it does that, get used to slower cars before you drive ones that can squeal the tires bare.
Torque steer can be a bit unfriendly, too, where most of the power gets put down from one of the two driving wheels. With certain differential setups especially on older cars, the majority of the power will come out of one wheel.
Even a 1998 General Motors make Minivan will torque steer if you 'romp on it' enough.

If your driving with a keyboard (like I do), then get used to a lesser powerful car, before you graduate to the more powerful sports cars and hate-tanks (Moonhawk, Barstow).
Use driving aids like Electronic Skid Control (ESC) and Anti-Lock brakes to help lessen the vehicle's ability to wipe out due to the full-on or full-off nature of a keyboard input device.

Driving in this game is some of THE most realistic you can get in any computer simulation. It's pretty neat to be honest, and the more you drive in the game (I've logged THOUSANDS of hours, despite what Steam says, as I don't run it through Steam almost ever), the better you'll get.

Sports cars are still hard to drive without lots of caution here, but the 88 Pessima with a stage 1 or 2 turbo, with all wheel steering (AWS) is pretty forgiving, just make sure to upgrade the radiator and oil cooler (if it has an oil cooler), if you drop a turbo in, so you don't blow it up.

Lots of quick rapid inputs as quick as you can modulate the keys on/off will help a lot and will be much better than butterfingering it up by mashing keys.
If they car starts to slide, it will naturally want to point in the direction the momentum is taking it, if correcting the steering is doing nothing but making it worse, don't mash the brakes, just let go of the inputs for about a second and let the car regain it's footing. If you spin out and try to accelerate, the car will naturally be pulled in the direction you're accelerating, even if that's into a wall now because the car is pointing sideways.
Like-wise, if IRL, and you skid in the snow while turning, letting the steering wheel back most (or sometimes all) of the way and not mashing brakes/throttle will snap the car out of the skid like you snapped your fingers and did magic. I have done this a few times in almost two decades of driving (where I used to live, it snowed a lot, and I never owned a 4WD vehicle, just FWD cars, but I almost never had an issue getting to work in it).
So yes, entirely, due care is required with powerful cars, but if you use the 80s or the 90s pessima with a 4 cylinder engine and front wheel drive, you should be okay, and as I said, the AWS model is very forgiving on the 80's pessima, as it's my map-tester to this day.

I use a controller but if I lay off the keys sometimes some cars will just turn right, ill get a video of it

[Dr. Death]

Disconnect your controller.

[2024 Nissan Z]

Originally posted by Dr. Death:

Disconnect your controller.

I use it to play the game....

[Dr. Death]

Originally posted by Swift - Silver:

Originally posted by Dr. Death:

Disconnect your controller.

I use it to play the game....

Try disconnecting your controller and then check if the car still turns right for no reason.

[2024 Nissan Z]

https://youtu.be/92uAAMamRW4

[Charlie Kelly]

That's weird. Your controller is probably ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. You can try either switching controllers or increasing the deadzone for the steering axis.

[Dr. Death]

Please disconnect your controller and check again. Bad deadzones or bad analogues can do this.

[2024 Nissan Z]

Originally posted by Dr. Death:

Please disconnect your controller and check again. Bad deadzones or bad analogues can do this.

okay

[CasualGamer]

yeahh look like your controler joystick is messup, try to give some deathzone ingame controlle seting on the specific binding.