Retired tropes of yesteryear

[Kimstu]

@Asuka

Does anyone else remember how in the 50’s through to the early 80’s every sitcom would have an episode where the teenager is taking Drivers Education lessons, and he was driving in a car with his instructor where they both had steering wheels so the instructor would often be forced to directly intervene in the driving lesson?

I always wondered if those were real things or not. I know cars with 2 steering wheels exist but I can’t imagine a driving school would pay tens of thousands of dollars custom made for them

A similar conversation beginning nearly twenty years ago seems to have determined that the dual controls were comparatively simple aftermarket add-ons, not hugely expensive custom jobs.