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Old Nov 17, 2014 | 08:51 AM
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Question ? Do you like this type of Steering Wheel ?

This Could be the Ford Steering Wheel of the Future
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By Zach Doell 19 hours ago




Earlier this year, a competition held by Italy’s Auto & Design Magazine presented amateur designers and students with a bold challenge: shape the steering wheel of the future. The prize? The winner earns the opportunity to spend a day with Ford engineers at the firm’s Cologne Design Center in Germany.
Jean-Thomas Mayer, a French design student, came up with this. And we’ve got to say, it ticks all the right boxes.
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Mayer’s concept is simple: combine all of the features and functions of today’s cars and make them directly accessible on the steering wheel. But instead of providing set arrangements for all drivers, Mayer’s system would allow each driver to customize the interface to suit their needs.
Some contemporary systems allow similar customization, but none with such an emphasis on putting those features directly on the wheel. Dual touch screens display infotainment, phone, and driving information, which can be flicked through and interchanged without the operator’s hands leaving the wheel – not far off today’s smartphone arrangements.
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Mayer explains that the vast interactivity of today’s cars begins to impede our habits behind the wheel. Allowing those interfaces to be customizable to suit any driver – in an arrangement that he or she is used to – would nonetheless provide a better user experience and promote safety.
 
Old Nov 17, 2014 | 09:09 AM
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I would have to pass big time. That wheel has way to much going on, and not enough room for my hand. I like having a big wheel that is a circle like cars now a days. A few buttons in the middle like the monte but not on the wheel itself.
 
Old Nov 17, 2014 | 09:15 AM
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Hi Zach >LOL<
"I wanta Round One" > so I can go around in circles

I like to push buttons + a Nitros one when the Race is close


 
Old Nov 17, 2014 | 09:21 AM
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I could live with that one you just posted. At least the buttons are in the middle. That way I wouldn't be hitting them when turning.
 
Old Nov 17, 2014 | 09:45 AM
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I don't like it at all. My comfort spot for driving is missing...the bottom of the wheel. LOL
 
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