The Lexus RZ 450e will eventually be available with something very different: a yoke in place of the steering wheel. However, it’s not just a yoke bolted onto the steering column for drivers to pretend they’re Batman. It is in fact an intrinsic part of an entirely new steering concept, officially called Steer by Wire, that could revolutionize the way we interact with the front wheels of a car. An angle sensor in the column senses how much you turned and sends that info to the usual electric power steering system, while the car determines how fast the car is going. Those two pieces of info are then used to radically alter the steering ratio and therefore how much you have to steer. In this video, Autoblog Senior Editor James Riswick climbs behind the wheel, err yoke, to tell you what the system and its yoke are like to drive.

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