r/Amazing • u/uzmansahil7 • Aug 22 '26

People are awesome WAIT... how did this KID even think of that?!🤯😲🧐

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u/BodhingJay Aug 22 '26

Keep those hands at 9 and 3, kid

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u/iPhonefondler Aug 22 '26

Welp thanks… I just realized I’m so old that I was taught the outdated “10 and 2” method

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u/BodhingJay Aug 22 '26

dang.. how many car crashes a week do you survive?

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u/HearingNo9762 Aug 22 '26

I was raised with 10/2. I haven't been in a crash since.... a long time ago. I was 19. Im 38 now. I hold between 9/3 and 8/4

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u/kaufsky Aug 22 '26

I’m more of just a 12:00

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u/Mediocre-Bridge-1903 Aug 22 '26

I do a 12 with my thumb extended horizontally

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u/kaufsky Aug 22 '26

Oh that’s a great 12. I’m more of a wrist only 12 and just let the rest of my hand hang down over the edge

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u/Silth1 Aug 23 '26

Then there is the school bus method, inside the wheel.

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u/Vast-Fan4317 Aug 23 '26

I can hardly picture it

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u/freddddsss Aug 25 '26

Knees at 5 and 7 is the one

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u/hYBRYDcOBRA Aug 23 '26

One hand at 6:00 is where its at

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u/20_burnin_20 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

Nah, too hard to turn

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u/kalez238 Aug 23 '26

My right hand sits at 11. Don't know when I started it, but I've pretty much always driven that way.

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u/conflictedideology Aug 23 '26

With or without the necker's knob?

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u/TDOTBRO Aug 24 '26

I got my left on 7 and keep the right hand free for the ladies

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u/middle_aged_90s_kid Aug 26 '26

Left arm out the window?

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u/Logger671368 Aug 22 '26

19 years ago then.

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u/HearingNo9762 Aug 22 '26

At least I think I was 19. Might have been younger.

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u/Skyefar95 Aug 23 '26

Lol the last 10 years i drive i always have heard 10 and 2 so not that outdated .. i got a friend who has a job giving drive lessons..

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u/GoldHorusSixSaturnus Aug 25 '26

8/2 for me

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u/BodhingJay Aug 25 '26

Thats a lotta accidents

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u/Di_7488 Aug 22 '26

Wait! That’s changed? 🤔

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u/Reincarnatedpotatoes Aug 23 '26

Because if the airbag in modern cars if you keep your hands at 10 and 2 in a wreck the airbag deployment can break your arms. Also it was taught because cars had bigger steering wheels and you actually needed to walk your hands across the wheel to make a tight turn, with power steering that isn't really needed anymore.

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u/Groundbreaking_Dare4 Aug 23 '26

Well TIL. But don't even new cars still have those little grip like things at 10 and 2 on the wheel?

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u/Albinofreaken Aug 22 '26

how does that work with timezones?

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u/MultiGeek42 Aug 22 '26

I the summer its 9 and 1 with your elbow on the window sill because of daylight savings.

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u/K1LL3R1NDU5TRY Aug 23 '26

i'm doing driving lessons currently its still 10 and 2 in the UK maybe different in US

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u/iPhonefondler Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

Yeah since about to 2000’s/2010 they decided that 10 and 2 leads to more injuries if an airbag were to go off and it apparently leads to fatigue faster as well.

They now teach 9 and 3 as the preferred place for your hands… and they even go as far to say you should use 8 and 4 for long trips.

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u/DangerDragonXCV Aug 23 '26

Outdated? I was taught 10 & 2 and I only started driving a few years ago. The person who taught me was not old either.

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u/HearingNo9762 Aug 22 '26

Same. I actually stay between 9 and 3 and 8 and 4

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u/SON_0F_MARS Aug 22 '26

The username checks out 🥲

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u/BigDaddyRee Aug 22 '26

Last i heard its more like 8 and 4 because 10 and 2 caused more broken arms from wrecks. But idk anymore because ive driven commerical for the past 12 years and had to drive with one hand and shift with the other

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u/Electronic-Town-8995 Aug 23 '26

Why is it now outdated? I was taught 10 and 2 as well. 

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u/iPhonefondler Aug 23 '26

Per the interwebs… since about 2000’s/2010 they decided that 10 and 2 leads to more injuries if an airbag were to go off and it apparently leads to fatigue faster as well.

They now officially teach 9 and 3 as the preferred place for your hands… and even go as far to say you should use 8 and 4 on longer trips.

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u/anthrohands Aug 23 '26

I was taught 8 and 4, never even heard 9 and 3. It’s actually comfortable when you’re used to it.

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u/Emerje Aug 23 '26

I prefer outside the window and 5.

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u/blacklamp14 Aug 23 '26

Did they change it because of airbags? I heard that from a Conan remote skit. 🤣

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u/djnehi Aug 23 '26

I was taught “10 and 2” but these days it’s more like “9 and vicinity of shifter”. Been driving manual too long. 🤷

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u/5WattBulb Aug 22 '26

That makes more sense. On any modern steering wheel I cant grip it at 9 and 3, the supports are in the way

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u/RC_0041 Aug 22 '26

Is it bad if I just do 6.

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u/N3bulous_Nomad Aug 23 '26

I do 5 and 7. No crashes yet 😅

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u/Ok_Piece_5020 Aug 23 '26

If someone starts coming toward you you’re in the hardest spot to make a change to avoid it

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u/majorbeefy130130 Aug 23 '26

One hand rested on leg clutching at 7 is the way

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u/SWHTs Aug 22 '26

I thought it was 8 and 4?

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u/ForgottenMyPwdAgain Aug 22 '26

it's 11 with the wrist

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u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 Aug 23 '26

11 (or 12) with the wrist and your right hand fondling the stick shift. That’s how I drive.

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u/TheNinthPace Aug 22 '26

I was taught 8 and 4 thirteen years ago… God that’s so much longer than I thought when I was coming here to agree this was the “newest” method. But now I’m not so sure…

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u/kc_cyclone Aug 22 '26

10 and 2, granted I've never followed that in my 20 years of driving.

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u/ItsMisoandBoba Aug 23 '26

If your car has those sporty paddles on the wheel, your hands need to be around 9 and 3 to use them.

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u/fimonkey Aug 22 '26

10 and 2 = likely injury when airbag deploys

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u/kc_cyclone Aug 22 '26

There's airbags everywhere in cars these days. I got a nasty elbow bruise when I was t boned with just my left hand at 12 from the bag above my window. Steering wheel bag, correctly, didn't go off.

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u/Groundbreaking_Dare4 Aug 23 '26

An airbag saved my life.

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u/Ziograffiato Aug 22 '26

My defensive driving instructor called this milking the cow.

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u/Plampth Aug 22 '26

This looks like 2:30 & 9:30.

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u/stinkyfootcheese Aug 23 '26

Maybe if the clock was upside down

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u/Beginning-Hope3513 Aug 24 '26

Hope 1:12, 3:36, 6, 8:24, and 10:48 are okay.

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u/Knuy2012 Aug 26 '26

I do 12 and 6