OT: Steering wheel

Not so.

Only if you're not wearing a seatbelt. Van drivers have those here, very useful.

How come your government doesn't care if you shoot each other, but they care about a little bump on your wheel?

How come this law?

"However, there is a law against using them for construction vehicles that haul and handle materials."

In a built up area with the music on loud showing off to girls maybe, but noon is the least comfortable position for a long drive. 6 is the most.

You clearly can't turn as fast without crossing hands. You only turn the wheel half a turn at once.

Why? The airbag has no effect on my driving whatsoever, it's hidden away in the centre of the wheel.

Oh, it was just that remark about multitasking on you phone while driving that fooled me. [g]

And likely to get you mixed up, it's like rubbing your chest and patting your head, you have to grip the correct hand at the correct time.

Plenty people do that.

Perhaps OSHA doesn't want "handicapped people" hauling hazardous materials?

Actually, I don't see an outright ban on them, but I just skimmed over the clauses.

Ah, so something to do with driving your construction vehicle on a rough track and your hand getting broken when the wheel suddenly moves. Much like don't put your thumbs on the inside of the 4x4 steering wheel when going offroad.

If you take the old people driving course to get a discount on your car insurance, you're told 3 and 9 is safer, and to keep all you fingers on the outside of the steering wheel.

How is it safer to have more hands on the wheel? If I need to avoid a collision by turning left, and I have one hand on the wheel, I move that hand. With two hands, my brain has to send two opposite signals to my hands.

You might not think so but the guys who did it went really fast

If your hand/arm is between your face and the bag when it goes off, you will punch yourself.

Self driving is not legal yet. It give a warning and also will drop the steering (lane assist) This is my car

They used the method all the time and it was second nature to them.

Completely unnecessary in my opinion.

Who's going to peer into your car while you're going along to check?

So it's got a feature which it immediately turns off. Why have the feature?

Cool. But why did they skid? Don't they have ABS?

They could have turned the whel just as fast or faster by using one hand. You only need two hands for old cars with no power steering.

All the more reason not to have the stupid thing in the first place. Modern society seems to be all about introducing safety features which turn out to be dangerous then introducing more features to protect you from those features. If a car has a label saying to turn off the airbag if you sit a child in the front seat, then I don't want it going off in front of me either. Explosives in a car should only be for Muslims.

Still playing obtuse I see.

The reason for paying attention to where your fingers are on the wheel is to lessen the possibility of getting gloved in a wreck.

Do whatever you want.