Veteran designers in the auto industry—and Jony Ive—tell us how hard it is to make a functional yet beautiful steering wheel.

The steering wheel is one of those instruments we pretty much take for granted. I mean, who ever heard of a car without such a thing? Just think about it: when buying a new vehicle, all of us bring ...

Although the first production automotive systems for it didn’t appear until the ’80s, steering a vehicle at both ends for greater maneuverability is old. Tiller trucks with rear-steering controls ...

China is drafting a steering system standard that measures 10 wheel points after airbag deployment. Yoke designs lack some ...

In the old days, establishing an electrical connection between a rotating object (in this case, a metal disc inside the base of a van steering wheel) and a stationary object (the wire to the van's ...