The Deceptively Tricky Art of Designing a Steering Wheel
LifestyleBy Jeremy White3/29/20261 min read
Veteran designers in the auto industry—and Jony Ive—tell us how hard it is to make a functional yet beautiful steering wheel.
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Cars didn't always have steering wheels. The very first carthe 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, invented by Karl Benzused a tiller system: a horizontal bar with a handle mounted to a vertical bar. The le