# Questions about training vehicles equipped with two steering wheels. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 5, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-training-vehicles-equipped-with-two-steering-wheels/146743 "2003-01-05T06:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-training-vehicles-equipped-with-two-steering-wheels/146743/11 "2017-05-25T13:32:53Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > I don’t know if manufacturers ever made these, but they most certainly do not now. After all, what would be annual take rate for such a vehicle? Packaging redundant controls for a few dozen vehicles per year (per model per manufacturer) would cost astronomically more than any potential profit. Cars are complex and hard to build with just a single set of controls. Bumped a 14 year old zombie for that? FWIW, my drivers ed car (circa 1998) had only an additional brake pedal. The instructor used it once, because I was coasting through an imaginary pedestrian crossing area before a stop sign. I remember the instructor telling a story about how that exact car had been nearly totalled by a student who was turning onto a narrow bridge with concrete barriers on each side. She wasn’t fully in control, and he was trying desperately to reach her steering wheel. In his words, she was quite overweight and “filled the area between her and the steering wheel, and I couldn’t get my hands on it.” They hit the concrete barrier, but the car was new enough that the damage was worth fixing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-training-vehicles-equipped-with-two-steering-wheels/146743)._