After more than a century, is the ultimate HMI set to disappear from the motor car?
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No doubt our forefathers never saw the tiller as one of the first Human Machine Interfaces, so when they ditched this maritime relic for a circular steering wheel it was surely only seen as a technical improvement, not a revolution.Simpler and smaller than their nautical counterparts, the modern steering wheel first made its mark during the 1894 Paris-Rouen road-race, when a Panhard driven by Alfred Vacheron became the first race-car to successfully demonstrate this hi-tech device.One hundred ye...
