Ford’s Mercury brand beat Tesla to a yoke-inspired steering setup by nearly five decades—and we got to test it out.
isn't the first time an automaker tried to reinvent the steering wheel. Back in the '60s, Ford's Mercury brand debuted what it called"wrist-twist steering," which looked much like the Model S' yoke and featured many of the same design goals—chiefly improved visibility both outward and of the instrument cluster. Here's what we thought of Mercury's Twist-Grip system after a 150-mile test drive back in 1965.
View of the instrument panel beats a round wheel by far, and there's no rim to interfere with forward vision. These are two advantages that—even if there were no others—would make the new Mercury system worthwhile. Driver control measures up to any present system. The steering ratio is quicker than most U.S. cars' . Even so, we would've preferred an even faster ratio, because there seems to be more sensitive control in a person's wrists than in his arms.One huge advantage of the wrist-twist system is its potential for greater safety. If the yoke were padded, it'd eliminate much of the crash danger of a conventional wheel. There's no rim to strike a person's head or knees.
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