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Originally Posted by HarryT
I too have a one-armed friend who drives, and although it's a standard (automatic) car, he has to have a knob attached to the steering wheel to hold to allow him to safely turn it one-handed. You can't make a sharp turn holding a normal steering-wheel one handed.
One of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0040K0DFS
(But his knob is bigger  ) |
When I was in high school, these many years ago, these spinners were known to one and all as "necking knobs" and no young student fortunate enough to have his own car failed to have one installed on the steering wheel, just to be prepared should a need arise.
I almost broke an arm one afternoon when I misjudged the distance to a curb while angle-parking; the tire's impact caused the steering wheel on my 1937 Pontiac to spin several revolutions, and the knob slammed into my forearm. No power steering in those days!
And there was a classic joke circulating: a boy and girl are driving slowly along a dark country road (in the USA), snuggled close to each other on the bench seat. He has his right arm around her and his left hand on the knob.
A motorcycle officer pulls alongside and snarls, "Get both your hands where they belong!"
"Can't do that," the boy replies. "Gotta keep at least one on the wheel."