Small-sized cars, fuel-efficient cars, or electric cars that the average small car would be the choice of people in the future. The streets are crowded with vehicles, parking lots are shrinking, and increasingly scarce fuel to be the reason.
Only, small-cars that exist today, often look less comfortable. Because space is limited as if packed with a steering wheel or steering wheel. As a result, the driver is out of the car needs extra effort. However, now the problem was quickly resolved.
As reported by gizmag.com and crazyengineers.com, Monday, July 4, 2011, the engineers at TRW Automotive components company in Michigan, United States, is developing a special steering wheel for a car of that type.
"The steering wheels can be folded and the smart set," is how the device was called.
Yes, a small steering wheel that can be folded up and into the dashboard of a car when the driver stopped the car and park it so it becomes more spacious cabin and the driver can freely and out of the vehicle.
"Instead, the device will appear and in a position ready to be steered so the driver activates the ignition," the statement TRW Automotive.
Manuel Poyant, Development Manager at the manufacturer, said it's the smart steering wheel is small and only a sixth, respectively in the left and right. It was adapted to the space on the dashboard of a car as a place of storage.
He mentioned that the steering wheel is collapsible and automatically set it's most likely installed in the small car starting in the next five years.
