Simplified vehicle physics for ambient traffic vehicles

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I’m working on a city based racing game for iOS. I’m using Unity’s wheel collider to setup the physics for racing vehicles (both player controlled and AI controlled). The performance is very bad if I put in too many vehicles( > 30). I need a vehicle physics setup which is very simplistic and lightweight. I found that wheel colliders were the main cause of slowdown since they are slower than ray-casts and having 30 vehicles means 120 wheel colliders being updated every frame.

Is there a simplified way of implementing vehicle physics(maybe without using wheel colliders) for showing many vehicles at once on mobile platforms?

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Can you just lerp the vehicles from point to point? Use something like:

Otherwise it would be pretty easy to build a simple car physics using a single rigid body, and push it around using forces. Would need to know more about the behavior you need to say more.