First of all forget anything you learned in physics class. Their models are very constrained. This is from Wendy Darling explaining to Peter Pan why he cannot fly straight. (P. Pan was ballistical, not aeriodymanic) It was also expounded on more deeply and rigorously by Dorothy when her storm cellar landed in Oz.
Imagine a conical Chinese hat sitting on the earth. Agree that where it touches is at your location, it is tangential naturally. The perfect one of a kind Chinese hat model. A line normal to the polar axis is dropped. When this line rotates east with the earth it changes direction in an absolute reference of space from north to "delta" west, but directionally it now points more west in space absolute.
Its angle of rotation in the tangential cadastral plan of the hat, is given by the length of the cone line to a point at the tip of the hat over the north polar axis divided into the amount of rotation circumferentially -- the inverse of the tangent arrived at thusly thereof.
This change in direction affects all lines on the earth at that point equally. So the straight road you see in the northern hemisphere is twisting in space counterclockwise. This twist has is referred to as an imaginary force because it is seen as a change in direction of the reference frame with regard to the moving object, so it only appears to act as a force. As the meridian lines rotate west, (They move east circumferentially towards Europe, but rotate directionally west on our conical hat plane.) an artillery shell fired north appears to be "forced" to curve right (east). But in fact it is moving in a straight line and the earth is moving underneath it. Wind going sucked inward to a zone of low pressure appears to curve to the left cntr-clockwise and outward from high pressure it appear to go right or clockwise.
The high speed auto is like the shell. Why, you ask does the auto not adhere to the road, and twist with the earth? Because it is 4000 pounds and travelling at 60 miles per hour. It wants to go straight in the instantaneous Chinese-hat-plane of space in the worst way. As the earth turns, the tires, set in space in a different direction a few minims ago, continues in the same way it was, even though it is being rotated by gravity in space to the right or east, around its longitudinal (fore and aft) axis, (inducing real precession of the tires to the right) and twisted to the left around its vertical axis.
If the tires stick to the road, by having a superior suspension, they allow the earth to very slowly turn underneath the car. The less they stick, the more quickly the earth turns underneath the car. Thus the Ferrari, Rolls and Benz twist off the road in that order or tendency. Tight steering helps fight gravitational gyroscopic precession of the wheels. A cheap car just bounces off the road by having sloppy suspension and unbalanced steering. This is usually down the camber of the road to the right, but it is helped by the Coriolis "force" as well.
If the above is found to be Hogwash. (I doubt it.) then speak to W. Darling at the Pan Institure for Advanced Ballistic Flight Research for Lost Boys, or go to the Oz Foundation for Cylconal Hyperspace Cellar Travel. Beware of the guard dog here. The animal was only cute in the story for kids. In reality it has Cyclone Dementia and bites like Russel Crowe at an Absinthe party.
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