Why we never a car with a joystick will control

Posted on 01-08-2014 at 19:05 by MauritsH – 17 Comments”

After more than 100 years of evolution on autogebied you might think that there are better alternatives for the well-known steering wheel.

History

The very first cars were equipped with so-called tillers to the direction of travel to determine, but Panhard was with the 2 HP in 1894, the first manufacturer that has a car uitrustte with a steering wheel as we know it today. Since then, it has this essential part of a true evolved and is no longer just used to a car a certain direction. So has Ferrari, for example, the well-known ‘Manettino’switch that allows different driving programmes can be selected and the flippers behind the steering wheel instead of a gear lever is already not news any more. Also there are various cars that the steering wheel vibrates, to indicate that the driver has his lane is about to leave. In short: more and more features that initially under the buttons and switches on the dashboard were on, the steering wheel is placed, so that the driver at any time, his hands on the wheel keep can.

Concepts with other solutions

In addition to some American science fiction-like concepts from the ’50s did Mercedes in a more recent past, an attempt to get consumers to get used to steering with a joystick. The F200 “Imagination” from 1996 (check the rims that are on a drain corpses) had a so-called drive-by-wire system, i.e. a kind of dual joystick control that allows the driver the direction of travel could be determined. Outside of the fact that the exterior of this concept is clearly alluded to the future design language of the brand, there is the whole “control 2.0” story is not much landed. Incidentally, it is the Infiniti Q50 has been equipped with a steering system that drive-by-wire is called, but in the end the driver still has a steering wheel in his knuisten.
Even a special concept with joystick control was the Dagne in 2008. This tricycle could both be controlled by to one side to lean as with the joystick, which, in addition, also the pedals replaced. The fact that we ever have heard probably says enough about this may be a little progressive idea.

Legislation, ergonomics and safety

The main reasons which ensure that the cars are equipped with a steering wheel and two or three pedals, all have to do with legislation, safety standards and ergonomic operation. Interiors of new cars are now once on a certain way of design, and the basis for it is framed by government regulations, which in their turn are linked with safety.

The precision of the steering wheel

Anyone on any console ever a car racing game has played it will tell you: racing with a joystick(or d-pad sucks. You will jam a round Suzuka on the PS4 can carts without your virtual supercar-breaking to drive, but really accurate (and so smooth, fast and above all: safe) it will never be. Avid simracers who regularly play a game of rFactor or iRacing play, is guaranteed to be a steering wheel at home to the winners to come.
The clearance that a joystick provides (at most a few centimeters) will never have the precision match of a steering wheel that lock-to-lock more than two times to its axis can be rotated. Especially in busy situations, you want your car exactly there, to send where necessary and you do not need to making random guess.

Is there is any future for control in general?

Given the recent developments with self-propelled cars, this is still yet to be seen whether we can get the steering wheel in the future going to come across. It is located in the line of expectation that the first autonomous cars still have a steering wheel will have for “emergencies” but it is not inconceivable that both handlebars as pedals in the future will disappear.

Conclusion

Everything added together, there seems to be no role for the joystick to play as a replacement of the steering wheel. Outside of the fact that we now have once used to cars with a steering wheel, a joystick, and less suitable for wheels in the right direction to point. In addition, it is still but to wait and see whether we are in the near future even with the actual send can interfere.