A Steering Wheel That Seems to Breathe, Built to Make Owners Comfortable Letting the Car Help

A steering wheel designed to look and feel as if it were breathing has been put forward as one answer to an old question for anyone who loves driving: how do you come to trust a car that can do some of the driving itself? The idea is a partnership. The car shares the work with the person behind the wheel instead of taking over, and the rim's slow, living rhythm is how the machine signals what it is doing. Not everyone will warm to it at first; even the writer who first described it admitted to finding it unsettling. For collectors and owners who care most about the feel of a wheel in their hands, it is an unusual idea about what that wheel might communicate next.

With reporting from The Drive.