This cool cat has his or her eyes fixed on the road, which is always a good thing. Paws seem secure on the steering wheel as well, which when a cat is driving is as good a place for them to be as any. But where did the steering wheel come from? Has it always been a part of cars?  The answer is no. The first automobiles were steered via a tiller (lever attached to a post) and it wasn’t until 1899 that Packard introduced the steering wheel on the second car they built. Within a decade, the steering wheel replaced the tiller in all standard automobiles. By then steering wheels were...the cat’s meow!

 

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By M.Dee Dubroff

M Dee Dubroff is a freelance writer and former teacher originally from Brooklyn, New York. Primarily a writer of ghostly and horror fiction, she has branched out into the world of humorous non fiction writing. She maintains eight web sites covering a wide variety of topics and writes feature articles for several local newspapers. Her book entitled: A Taste of Funny, features many well researched and humorous articles on the subject of food and drink.

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