Like they say in those bad old driver education videos, if a thief wants your car it will be gone in sixty seconds.

Or have a look at this concept steering wheel ZF showed six years ago, the kind of fantasy just waiting for this airbag relocation.

However, it also came back to bite Tesla eight months later because the service technicians may have installed the wrong airbag in the steering wheel after swapping it for a different model.

The team at ZF Lifetec has developed a new steering wheel design in order to expand design possibilities for future vehicles.

Among the signs that a steering gearbox needs repair or replacement are increased or jerky steering effort, and the steering becoming loose and showing excessive play.

German automotive parts supplier ZF Lifetec presented a new steering wheel design that has the airbag exploding from the top side.

An automotive tech company has redesigned the centre airbag steering wheel – universally fitted to new cars in Australia for decades – to allow more smartphone-like features without ...

While a proper airbag will always deploy in the event of an accident, how far your head is from the steering wheel could also help mitigate risk.

By relocating the airbag, ZF has opened the door to carmakers for innovative steering wheel design. Future steering wheels could have screens in the center.

Despite revolutionising in-car safety, every airbag fitted to a vehicle in the last three decades has deployed from the central part of the wheel. However, this new design enables the driver’s airbag ...