Completely revamped the driving physics of the karts/vehicles.
I went from using wheel colliders to my own raycast based solution. And imo it looks and feels 10x better.
Karts are fast and bouncy which really helps achieve that arcade feel. They also support LR1 style power-sliding which helps speed you up around tight corners.
https://streamable.com/xma9z
Can support different wheel suspension heights and kart bodies, all while retaining max speeds to assure races are fair.
https://streamable.com/ksxcr
Started playing around with AI. As you can probably tell from the video, they're as dumb as a sack of potatoes.
They have a very basic "brain" that just tells em to randomly accelerate and steer, which sometimes makes them look quite intelligent, but most of the time they will drive straight into a wall.
AI vehicles are exactly the same as a player controlled one, and it's very easy to "take control" of a bot, if needed.
https://streamable.com/fk3mr
And finally a video of simply driving around with some bots in the walled area.
https://streamable.com/bqg6f