Ackermann steering geometry

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The Ackermann steering geometry (also called Ackermann's steering trapezium) is a geometric arrangement of linkages in the steering of a car or other vehicle designed to solve the problem of wheels on the inside and outside of a turn needing to trace out circles of different radii.

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