The seats and steering wheel wrap themselves around your body like the arms of a body builder.
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They also do a good job of replicating the sitdown feeling of driving, complete with the working gear shift, pedals and steering wheel.
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Leveraging SYNC's safer voice commands and steering wheel controls, drivers are able to keep their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.
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The hijacked taxi was found the following day at Fountainville Street in south Belfast and fingerprint experts found two palm prints on the inside rear passenger window and steering wheel respectively.
While many visit for leisure, students have used the resource to research topics ranging from music composition to the effects of texting while driving (using an Xbox 360 racing title and steering wheel peripheral, of course).
Inside, the Land Rover Range Rover Sport is all business, with legible gauges and straightforward buttons, switches and dials on the dashboard, console and steering wheel for most functions, with a large LED touchscreen on the center stack used for audio and navigation system operations.
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It is easier and safer to use whilst driving, as drivers can access and operate the music system via the steering wheel and centre stack controls, without taking their eyes off the road or their hands off the steering wheel.
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Magnesium cross-members and steering-wheel columns are increasingly common, as are aluminium engines and suspension components.
Both the foot pedals and the steering wheel are adjustable so that drivers can recreate what it feels like to be behind the wheel of an F1 car.
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Postl says he's pleased with more recent acquisitions, such as Axius, which is bringing out a constant stream of new automotive products, including sunshades, organizer baskets and steering-wheel covers.
With a Napoleon Dynamite bobblehead doll glued to the dashboard, and the steering wheel on the right, Mr. Archer cut over several lanes to turn left onto Canal St.
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To make this work, regular controls had to be replaced with drive-by-wire, and the accelerator, steering wheel and brake are gone in favor of an aerospace-type yoke that (as in a Segway), is moved forward to move the vehicle forward, and back for reversing.
None of this is too light, by the way: At speed you get effort and feel back in the steering wheel, and gearshifts can be executed quickly.
You get the same, real metal door pulls, an identical organically sculpted steering wheel and the same gauge cluster, with ignition to the left of the steering wheel (a carryover from Le Mans racing tradition).
The front seats are comfortable, and the speedometer and other gauges behind the steering wheel are stylish and clearly legible.
But Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford, insisted SYNC would "allow drivers to keep their eyes on the road and their hands on the steering wheel, " and said his company was working with app makers to further improve security.
We have hands-free telephones, voice-activated controls, xenon headlights and four-wheel steering to make towing easier, and I've just heard of rear-seat air bags built into the seat belt.
"Where before users would pick up their phone, taking their eyes off the road and hands off the steering wheel while driving to select a station and hit play, AppLink makes all of that functionality available through voice control, just like managing AM and FM radio or your MP3 player through SYNC, " said Julius Marchwicki, SYNC product manager.
She leaned back and gripped the steering wheel with one hand, as if to steady herself.
Again the driver glanced away nervously, and gripped the steering wheel.
The car was found the next morning and when it was examined, an RUC fingerprint officer found two palm prints matching Rodgers' right and left hands on the inside of the rear passenger window and on the steering wheel.
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Drive-by-wire would, for example, do away with the distinction between left-hand and right-hand drive vehicles, since the driver would no longer be tied to the steering wheel and the location of the pedals.
As he arrived home and got out of his car, Milonas was seized by four hooded men who forced him back behind the steering wheel and ordered him, at gunpoint, to drive away.
Then we came to a stop, deactivated Winter mode and traction control, turned the steering wheel to full lock, and romped on the throttle.
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Once connected, the phone can be stored away and all functions can be operated using the vehicle's iDrive controller, steering wheel buttons and on-board monitor.
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And parking should become a doddle: the sidestick would eliminate the need to wrestle the steering wheel to and fro.
When the sense of alarm she had been holding so coolly at bay suddenly broke through, she made a lightning assessment of the oncoming traffic and with a breathtaking lack of deliberation jerked her steering wheel to the left and whipped past the Range Rover as she made a left turn against the light.
Drivers with arthritic hands, painful or stiff fingers or diminished fine motor skills should look for cars having a thick steering wheel (even better for those living in northern climates, a heated steering wheel) and easy to operate gearshifts.
You can increase gas, move the steering wheel and the Sport responds without breaking a sweat.
The benefits of getting rid of the steering wheel and the pedals are twofold.
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