# What ever happened to those little impressed finger-shaped thingies on steering wheels?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-those-little-impressed-finger-shaped-thingies-on-steering-wheels/575790 "2011-03-24T01:38:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-those-little-impressed-finger-shaped-thingies-on-steering-wheels/575790/41 "2011-03-27T15:13:23Z")

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> [@acsenray](#):
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> As I said before, I believe they were eliminated because they tended to break people’s fingers and cause other kinds of injuries.

An old dirt track racer told me the first rule in racing when you know you going to hit something (or someone) is to get your thumbs off the spokes and onto the outside of the wheel. Rookie drivers got broken thumbs, he said.

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