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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Eli5: What is understeer and oversteer?
gpt
Understeer- the car doesn’t turn enough

Oversteer - the car turns too much

That’s the basic way to remember it. In practice it looks like the car plowing straight forward when it understeers, and spinning out when it oversteers. You can also remember which is which by the fact that drifting is just “controlled oversteer” while looking cool.  The reason for which is going to occur is down to the amount of grip the front and rear wheel have. If the front wheels lose grip before the rears do, you get understeer. If the rear wheels slide while the fronts grip, you get oversteer.