Turning a parked car without power steering takes around 50 pounds of force at the wheel rim. Engineers spent half a century solving that problem the same way shipbuilders did. Make the wheel enormous and gear it slow. That's why steering wheels on old cars were 17 to 18 inches across and took five or six full turns to go lock to lock. Diameter is leverage. Every extra inch of wheel is torque your arms don't have to produce. A ship's wheel works on the identical principle, just scaled up for a…

GRUGCEL@GRUGCEL2d ago

drove a car without power steering for like 4 years and it felt like this https://t.co/pY54rShNDi