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The shaft at the middle portion can be thicker in diameter than the top and bottom portion.

http://us.misumi-ec.com/us/ItemDetail/10300019270.html If you design the shaft yourself, you can also incorporate the collar into the shape of shaft.

There are different ways of doing this. 1. You can add a collar to the shaft and screw it onto the upper plates. 2. Force fitting of the plates onto the shaft. 3. Add a key to the shaft to help force transmission together with a retaining ring to stop axial movement of plate. and so on... I...

It should be better to have a long and small angle arm. Using the potentiometer and spring mechanism suggested by Jehan, you can detect the curve ahead. When the arm go further off the ground (out of line), you will turn the wheel harder. then you can predict the curvy road in front and respond...

It is quite interesting that, if there is a clutch between the flywheel and motor, the flywheel can actually act like a capacitor in an electrical circuit. Am i right?

I suggest you to utilize internet search engine and read up more about the theoretical part. I understand the feeling of "missing something", but if you look closer, a lot of the fundamental theory are missing and not well explained. Most are built up from experimental data and proven hypothesis...