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Tire Properties for Wandering and Vehicle Pull

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Wandering is a phenomenon of handling pull in straight driving due to the road slope, wheel track unevenness, rain grooves or road roughness.

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Nakajima, Y. (2019). Tire Properties for Wandering and Vehicle Pull. In: Advanced Tire Mechanics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5799-2_16

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