In the past drivers were taught to keep their hands at 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock. Now it is advised to hold the steering wheel differently depending on your steering technique

Hand-to-Hand Steering: When using this method, your left hand grasps the wheel between 7 and 8 o’clock, and your right hand between 4 and 5 o’clock.

Why YSK: these changes were caused by the inclusion of airbags and steering wheels becoming smaller

it is also advised to not wrap your thumb around the steering wheel but instead keep it flush to the face of the steering wheel, because if you are in an accident and the air bag is deployed your thumb being wrapped can cause injury

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/steeringtechniques.pdf

https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/emsworld/article/10322231/driver-airbag-hand-injuries-10-and-2-not-rule

  • MerfMerfEspañol
    13•2 years ago

    Meanwhile I’m here avoiding airbag related injuries by driving cars old enough not to have any. True big brain move right there if I do say so myself.

    • @RFBurnsEspañol
      1•2 years ago

      They’re also easily disconnected in case you don’t want to be in a statistic like:

      Air bags were previously blamed for the deaths of 31 children and 20 adults–mostly smaller women–in low-speed crashes they otherwise could have survived.

      My wife (a ‘smaller woman’) will not sit behind one.