Steering Experiment
VVRIST-twist steering, which ’’ the Lincoln-Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company began testing in public last year, has proved so popular that the division plans an expanded marketresearch programme with an improved 1966 version of the experimental steering control system. During six months of testing in 1965, nine out of every 10 drivers who tried wristtwist steering needed only minutes to become accustomed to the advanced control, and seven out of 10 said
they would prefer it to conventional steering on their next car.
Encouraged by the results, Lincoln-Mercury installed the wrist-twist control in nine cars which will be sampled by drivers in cities throughout the United States this spring and summer.
In wrist-twist steering, the steering wheel is replaced by twin circular handgrips. The grips turn together with a twist of the wrist to provide quick and sensitive manoeuvring control.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 9
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143Steering Experiment Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 9
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