Driver training aid

A driver training aid, comprising:

• a base having an upstanding houseing;
• a steering assembly comprising a worm gear shaft a steering wheel and a steering assembly having a sector shaft fastened to said steering wheel to provide substantially the same mechanical cooperation as is found in an actual steering wheel and steering gear, said steering assembly being mounted in said housing with the face of said steering wheel mounted at predetermined acute angle to the vertical;
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• a variable resistance spring assembly comprising a spring arm fastened at one of its terminal ends to the worm gear shaft of said steering gear assembly, an arcuately shaped spring carring rod being substantially in a plane disposed perpendicularly to said worm gear shaft and fastened at its terminal ends to said housing with the geometrical center thereof being congruent with the center line of said worm gear shaft, and a spring being substantially coextensive with and being slidably carried on and having its ends secured to said spring carrying rod, the terminal end of said spring arm opposite the end connected to said worm gear shaft being fastened to the spring substantially midway of the length of said spring.