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JackMcCornack wrote:> So I'm not the only one with questionable arm strength
Sorry, I hadn't realized it was a question, I thought you were telling us how it is.

I'm the most beautiful man in the world, I can't be strongest too.

lusiphur134 wrote:

JackMcCornack wrote:> So I'm not the only one with questionable arm strength
Sorry, I hadn't realized it was a question, I thought you were telling us how it is.

I'm the most beautiful man in the world, I can't be strongest too.

Yeah, I know how it is... I kinda wish I'd been born rich instead of so damned cute...

My neighbor is paralyzed from waist down, so for
many years now, he uses hand controlled system on
his van.
Been just thinkin' about this no pedals system.
and found a very very interestin' "hicost" project.

http://www.flixxy.com/gm-hy-wire-concept-car.htm
Ewhen

Popular Mechanics published a How-To a looooong time ago to make a single lever control for an Automatic Transmission, power Steering, Power assisted Brakes equipped car.
I may still have it with me. (No I´m not that old, I just happen to collect Popular Mechanics)

If you dig the issue up and post the issue number, it's probably on Google Books for the rest of us to see.

My problem is quite the reverse. I have diabetic neuropathy in my hands. They still work some. But, eventually they'll just die. So I'll have to convert my locost to tracks and drive it like a bulldozer or a tank. That's a thought! Think the DMV would mind a gun & a 50cal. Would solve some traffic problems. I'll need a gunner. Any volunteers?

TRX wrote:If you dig the issue up and post the issue number, it's probably on Google Books for the rest of us to see.

TRX,
I eventually will.
AA

My late wife had MS and was confined to a wheel chair with no use of her legs. She bought a new Thunderbird(I don't remember the exact year) and had hand controls fitted. This car had an automatic transmission, so no need for a clutch, but the braking was indeed done by hand, as was the throttle. I drove the car many times, and after the first few times, it became pretty normal, kinda like driving on the left side of the rode at first.
Adding a hand operated clutch to the equation would probably seem normal after the first few times. Years ago, cars didn't have standardized controls but we learned to drive them pretty quickly. Aircraft are not all alike, some have yokes, some sticks, etc. Shouldn't be a problem. Humans are pretty adapdable. Just my take.

photoman wrote:Aircraft are not all alike, some have yokes, some sticks, etc.

There's good reason for that. There was a big push to standardize all aircraft cockpits after some nasty crashes in the 1950s and 1960s. The USAF did a study and decided it would be a bad idea - having the same cockpit layout shared between aircraft of vastly different flight characteristics caused problems when pilots switched from one plane to another.

Motorcycles and cars wound up getting various controls standardized in the 1970s, but the only reason every car doesn't have the headlight switch and heater controls in the same place goes back to that original study, though some of the "safety" wanks nearly blew a gasket.