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WHOA!! Check this out!

634 views 14 replies 12 participants last post by  Saabeh  
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It looks like a Saturn on steroids. Yawn.

Plus Saab was experimenting with joystick steering years ago. I've seen video of a 9000 with joystick steering in the center (it was eons ago, I don't have a link).

EDIT - sometimes I amaze myself. No video, but here's a link that came up in a Google search of "Saab 9000 joystick steering" -- published in the UK in 1992.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13.28.html#subj5

The two-litre Saab 9000 Turbo used to test the active steering has automatic
gears and anti-lock brakes and a conventional accelerator, although Mr Branneby
said these may eventually be linked to the central computer. He does not
envisage production models of cars using steer-by-wire joysticks until 2010 or
2015, although a version with active steering applied to a conventional
steering wheel may come sooner. He also said a production model would probably
have two joysticks one for each arm so the driver can swap the arm in control.