Driving Position Ergonomics - Anyone ever noticed??

[cptsideways]

I did some work recently where the ergonomics of cars & their driving positions was highlighted. Now I've often noticed things are'nt quite right in certain cars but I really can't believe what you can buy currently today

Astonishingly one of the UK's most popular cars is truly horrific & there's a luxury German brand thats almost as bad on some of their models

So

Part 1) Do you think your car is egomically correct?

Part 2) Have you ever had a look in detail?

Part 3) Report you findings, I think you may be surprised!



What I'm referring to is the driving position in relation to your body centre line, steering wheel offset, and importantly steering angle relative to straight ahead & finally pedal offset.


Here's an image of what to look at, to help along the way, placing a ruler or similar across the wheel helps highlight the wheel angle



If you can name the either of the two worst cars above you win a *

[cptsideways]

ShadownINja said:

cptsideways said:

If you can name the either of the two worst cars above you win a *

Mercedes CLK63 AMG. Sat in one and thought it was a ridiculous offset that put me off owning one.

Edited by ShadownINja on Wednesday 20th October 01:18

Current C Class is one of the worst, notice how you never see an overhead view of the cabin in any of the brochures

Amazing that people have the quoted the other worst car as one they consider comfy, it is of German origin btw.

Interestingly the best by a long way are typically Japanese cars, deisgned as RHD & the nips have a thing about the body being comfy.

[cptsideways]

kambites said:

cptsideways said:

Interestingly the best by a long way are typically Japanese cars, deisgned as RHD & the nips have a thing about the body being comfy.

They also tend to be short.

But they predominantly design their cars for export As someone who is 6ft 1" I find most jap stuff has a comfier position for long legs, most euro cars the pedals are too close to the steering wheel, especially the French stuff. Volvo's would appear to be the exception, with great driving positions.