Do BMW want to turn cars into motorbikes?

[Malone]

starting with handlebars to steer with

BMW's Crazy New Steering Wheel Makes Tesla Yoke Look Normal

There has been no shortage of strange steering wheel designs, and that's just in the last year alone. Before that, there have been many strange steering wheels since the car was invented, but the recent prospect of autonomous driving has prompted a number of manufacturers to reinvent something...

carbuzz.com

 

[Stevebrooke]

That will be interesting if you turn up at an IAM test. Feeding the wheel through both hands isn't an option.

 

[Jaws]

starting with handlebars to steer with

BMW's Crazy New Steering Wheel Makes Tesla Yoke Look Normal

There has been no shortage of strange steering wheel designs, and that's just in the last year alone. Before that, there have been many strange steering wheels since the car was invented, but the recent prospect of autonomous driving has prompted a number of manufacturers to reinvent something...

carbuzz.com

I suspect they know the average millennial learns to drive with an XBox so they are trying make them feel at home ( and avoid having to go to 'safe space' in floods of tears )

 

[T.C]

That will be interesting if you turn up at an IAM test. Feeding the wheel through both hands isn't an option.

Crossing your arms is no longer the no no it used to be.....

 

[Centaur]

I had a kart in the 60s with a steering wheel very like that....sans buttons of course.

 

[eddyace595]

Mate of mine fitted a steering wheel to his 10 speed racer back in the 70s....
Think that he ended up in A & E though !!!

 

[slim63]

All I can say is this seems extremely odd and possibly dangerous as there is nowhere to balance a coffee, map, phone or anything else whilst driving

 

[Squag1]

All I can say is this seems extremely odd and possibly dangerous as there is nowhere to balance a coffee, map, phone or anything else whilst driving

Or your cornflake bowl, don't laugh, I know of a case.

 

[andyBeaker]

starting with handlebars to steer with

BMW's Crazy New Steering Wheel Makes Tesla Yoke Look Normal

There has been no shortage of strange steering wheel designs, and that's just in the last year alone. Before that, there have been many strange steering wheels since the car was invented, but the recent prospect of autonomous driving has prompted a number of manufacturers to reinvent something...

carbuzz.com

Totally 100% cool.

Fact.

All these concept cars along with new cars are featured on Auto Mondial, on one of the itv channels early Sunday morning. Very informative.