Suppose standing on the bridge next to the fat man, I didn't have to push him, suppose he was standing over a trap door that I could open by turning a steering wheel like that.
Or would you more likely grow weary of the C30 Polestar, with its daily experiments in turbo'ed torque-steer, its girlie clutch, and its wildly over-assisted steering, as numb as a well-digger's bottom?
It adds a dimension to coxing which makes it a lot more interesting than steeringover a straight course - a bit like the Grand National fences at Aintree add a new challenge for a National Hunt jockey.
The Russian vehicle essentially took a shortcut that required precisely timed steeringover the course of four orbits, putting three crew members (including one American astronaut) on the space station at 10:28pm ET -- just five hours and 45 minutes after takeoff from Kazakhstan.