In order to do that, you had to go hand over hand, and it was helpful if the rim of the steering wheel was pretty much in the same place no matter where the front wheels of the car was facing because when you’re looking out the rear window of the car, you can’t keep track of where the rim of the steering wheel happens to be. There was more mechanical advantage, and thus less force required, to turn the wheel all the way to the stop if the amount you had to turn the wheel was more than 180 degrees. For those of you old enough to remember that long ago time, parking without power steering was a bit more work than we wanted to do. This is a leftover from when cars sometimes came without power steering. That reason is that in tight spaces, you sometimes need to turn the wheel more than 180 degrees in order to make the front wheels get all the way to the left or to the right. There’s a reason that steering wheels on cars are round, or nearly round. That sort of thing is strictly for airplanes. Of course, nobody thinks that the refreshed Model S can fly so there’s no indication that pushing forward on the Model S yoke will make the nose of the Tesla point downward or that pulling back on the yoke will make the nose of the Tesla point upward. It’s similar in shape to the steering yokes on airplanes. By now, all the Tesla fans who frequent this site have seen the pictures of the steering yoke on the refreshed Model S.
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