You are driving down the interstate at 75 mph and the steering wheel suddently falls in your lap. whats your next move?

Put on the brakes.

Slowly.

While panicking and crapping myself, I hope I would try to break….. slowly.

Since I really have no idea, I’m going to take a shot in the dark and first take my foot off the gas, turn on the hazards, and try to grab something where the wheel used to be and try to steer anyways, and if that doesn’t work ill just try to slow down gradually while waving people around me.

One man said he would light a cigarette and jump in the back seat!

Grab the vise grips….. true story I was in the back of a MGA. Nut loosened up on friend that was driving other person in passenger seat passed him a vise grips.

One person said they would reach for the duct tape. duct tape??

I would take my foot off the gas and brake, how hard depends on what is in the road ahead. Since the airbag is in the steering wheel, I would probably duck into the passenger seat when I went off the pavement, unless I was nearly stopped.

This is my last…......one woman said to her mother-in-law sitting nexr to her…........

“Here, you drive”.

Wet myself.
Slowly apply brakes.
Turn on hazzard lights.
Call AAA on cell phone.

cprevite, remember, your car has no steering and is out of control at 75 mph. i agree with wetting yourself. i heard that.

turn off the engine…wait until it stops… or jump out…duck and roll

talljasperman, duck and roll on the interstate at 75 mph? paramedics would need a body bag to collect the pieces.

This has happened to me before, so I have some experience and my example should not be tried by others. Warning: do not attempt this yourself, and I encourage youngsters to go to another thread now.

75 miles per hour on the highway. Slow for my Ferrari, taking in the view, wind in my hair.

Steering wheel falls into my lap, as I had just pushed the steering off button; I put the steering wheel into the compartment for it behind my head, as the flying wheel pops out. The transition was smooth: the wings have come out and they snap into place. I am ready to accelerate to 150 mph now for take-off.

Whooooooooosh. Excellent take off. Thanks.

I’d probably hit both the horn and the hazard lights as quickly as possible while braking at a rate calculated to take advantage of any curve in the road so as possibly to bring me safely to the side (either side) before stopping. A lot would depend on how much traffic was on the road.

What’s the right answer, @john65pennington?

@Jeruba I considered the horn and hazzards too, but they are mounted on the steering wheel in my vehicle. If the wheel falls off, they are probably inoperative.

Zenele, so, your vehicle turns into a jet plane?

Turn up the volume on my CD player which just happens to be playing This. Then sit back and enjoy the ride. : >

I would hope like hell that I am on a beer run. Cause the only thing that I can think I would do is grab a beer light a cigarette, cause it’s most likely going to be my last. So, I will drink the beer, smoke the cigarette, shit my pants, piss in my pants and hope I die. I don’t want to live in the hospital.

Hazard Lights, go into Neutral, get ready for possible braking, and relax.

pray fervently

@john. Also a submarine.

Oh, rats, @WestRiverrat, you’re right: no horn. Well, I would probably be screaming loud enough to make up for that.

At least my hazard switch is in the dashboard.

Put the pedal to the metal. You’re pretty much f**ked, might as well go out at 100 to 120 as opposed to 75 mph.

Emergency break! Something reckless. Blow it completely out of proportion. Cry for five hours afterward. Never drive again, etc.

Slowly apply brakes, use indicators to indicate any lane changes the car makes, put on hazard lights and honk horn (oh… if it was on the wheel… never mind… maybe that’s why they used to be on the side) as appropriate, use brake and possibly even some gas to try to help car drift off the road and stop appropriately.