You Think Your Car’s Steering Wheel Controls are Complicated?

[longknife]

Well, check this one out.

And you’re supposed to know which does what while you’re going 200mph+!

How busy are the drivers? “If I look at a qualifying lap from last year, they are making something like 50 gearshifts over the course of a qualifying lap, they are steering through 17 corners, they are making seven or eight changes of rotary switches over the course of the lap and of course they are feeding back the information they are seeing on the dash to us as well,” said Short.

Much more of this interesting stuff @ The steering wheel in an F1 race car requires fighter jet components and lots of practice

 

[LittleNipper]

I TOTALLY agree with you! However, once steering wheels were designed for driving/steering an automobile. Today, they are designed to look at. What steering wheels once looked like: 10 Coolest Dashboards of the 50s

 

[longknife]

I TOTALLY agree with you! However, once steering wheels were designed for driving/steering an automobile. Today, they are designed to look at. What steering wheels once looked like: 10 Coolest Dashboards of the 50s

I loved the -57 Imperial.