# Retired tropes of yesteryear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retired-tropes-of-yesteryear/963324 "2022-04-23T18:11:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 300
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retired-tropes-of-yesteryear/963324/300 "2022-05-18T19:50:06Z")
> [@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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-training-vehicles-equipped-with-two-steering-wheels/146743/11) seems to have determined that the dual controls were comparatively simple aftermarket add-ons, not hugely expensive custom jobs. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retired-tropes-of-yesteryear/963324)._