5 crazy attempts to replace the steering wheel

In the days of yore, steering your car was a brutal, mechanical process. These days, it’s far more streamlined and a lot of technology goes into making sure that your steering wheel communicates with your car’s wheels as fast and efficiently as possible.

Throughout all that time though, one thing has remained more or less constant: the steering wheel itself. Sure some cars now allow you to control pretty much every single vehicle function from the steering wheel (not always as convenient as it might sound), but put someone from the early 20th century in a modern car and that know exactly what the round object in front of the driver’s seat is designed to do.

The reason its design has been so constant is because it works. When you think about how you steer a car, other shapes and forms just wouldn’t work (not on the road anyway).

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