First car to get a steering wheel - Panhard 4 hp model

January 09, 2016, 19:16 IST
Are you thinking whether there were cars ever without steering wheel? Interestingly, there were. Before steering wheel, cars were steered by something called a tiller.

The first usage of steering wheel was seen for the first time in 1894 in Alfred Vacheron when he drove a Panhard 4 hp model in the Paris–Rouen race.

However, by the time car started being mass produced, steering wheel, thankfully, was well and truly integral to cars.

The image here shows evolution of steering wheel down the ages.