Vehicle having multiple driving positions
AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation
InventorsNiklas Palm, Jonas Göthlin
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AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation
InventorsNiklas Palm, Jonas Göthlin
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Vehicles, steering systems, and steering assemblies of a vehicle are provided in the present disclosure. According to one embodiment, a steering system includes a track oriented substantially in a side-to-side direction with respect to the vehicle. The side-to-side direction may be substantially horizontal with a ground surface and substantially perpendicular with a forward-facing direction of the vehicle. The steering system also includes a steering wheel adapted to slide laterally along the track. In another embodiments, the present disclosure provides a vehicle comprising a steering wheel assembly adapted to be positioned in laterally variable locations with respect to the vehicle, whereby the steering wheel assembly is further adapted to enable a driver to manually operate the vehicle from a left-hand side of the vehicle and from a right-hand side of the vehicle.
A steering system of a vehicle, the steering system comprising:
A vehicle defined by a front/back axis substantially oriented in a forward-facing direction, the vehicle comprising:
A vehicle comprising a steering wheel assembly adapted to be positioned in laterally variable locations with respect to the vehicle, the steering wheel assembly further adapted to enable a driver to manually operate the vehicle alternately from at least a left-hand side of the vehicle and a right-hand side of the vehicle, and a display panel positioned on a dashboard of the vehicle and having a width traversing a length of the dashboard between the left-hand side of the vehicle and the right-hand side of the vehicle comprising a reconfigurable instrument panel display positionable within the display panel in multiple positions coincident with the steering wheel assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.