Yahoo Autos GM Wants To Accommodate Little And Big Hands Alike
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Why is this a thing?
If you’re normal, you like your steering wheels like your women: thick. All joking aside, not everyone enjoys a thicker steering wheel and some people like them thinner. GM seems to think this all has to do with hand size, which to a degree that might be true. That might be why the automaker recently patented a design for a steering wheel filled with a gel-like substance to get you that perfect Goldilocks-sized steering wheel.
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This unique design involves a bladder surrounding the steering wheel rim and a pump which can introduce more of the gel-like fluid into the bladder or suck out excess. This sounds kind of like power adjustments for your seat, only a little grosser. Originally, this patent was filed back in December of 2020 but was published just a few weeks ago, which is why nobody knew about it until now.
