Bronze Vehicle Accessory · 2025
Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel
by Don Ian
- Bronze A' Design Award 2025 in Vehicle Accessory
- CLIENT: Agiling
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,769
- Verification code 4A4E482150 · Verify this award
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About Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel
This product design is an improvement on the traditional round steering wheel which can improve the driver's forward vision. The wheel rim shape of Oval Rectangle highlights a sense of technology and futurism, and combines the advantages of circular steering wheel and half-spoke steering wheel. The design of different materials and colors on the double rings of inner and outer reflects a visual effect of layering. The application of special material-color gradient fabrics provides more personalized choices. The Designer hopes to create a product that balances aesthetics and practicality.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Modified steering wheel designed for Tesla Model 3/Y, Create a steering wheel that combines the advantages of circular steering wheel and half-spoke steering wheel. The unique wheel rim shape of Oval Rectangle highlights a strong sense of technology and futurism, and the design of different materials and colors on the double rings of inner and outer reflects a special sense of layering. The application of particular material-color gradient fabrics provides more personalized choices.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 358 (mm) x 147 (mm) x 268 (mm)
- Tags
- Steering Wheel, Cyber Yoke, CyberYoke, Tesla, Model 3, Model Y, Agiling, Don Ian
- Production Technology
- Five-layer Process: 1. One-piece die casting frame; 2. First layer of PU foam; 3. Built-in heating patch; 4. Second layer of PU foam; 5. Surface mat. covering.
- Design Challenge
- The development of the manufacturing process is more difficult than the design. The entire product development took one year. The foaming mold of the steering wheel body was modified three times, and the color gradient fabric was modified three times. In addition, the surface material was hand-wrapped, and it was difficult to maintain the surface flatness. Quality control was the key.
- Research
- Using NX to create design models and then using resin 3D printing to verify feasibility, the use of resin materials results in significant dimensional errors, leading to longer mold modification times during the product trial production phase. For the development of color gradient fabrics, due to the high requirement for fabric extensibility for surface covering, the initial color displayed by the fabric is darker. Adjusting the fabric texture scheme can effectively reduce the color depth.
- Inspiration
- The traditional circular steering wheel allows both hands to move freely, it‘s easy to get the hands mixed up after turning and returning, while a half-spoke steering wheel can cause the other hand to grab the air when turning and turning back, so we aimed to build a steering wheel that avoids both problems. On the other hand, the inspiration for using color gradient fabrics comes from the paintings of Van Gogh, and we hope to create a product that balances aesthetics and practicality.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Guangzhou in December 2023, obtained a patent in August 2024, and entered mass production in December 2024.
- Operation Flow
- About the installation of the modified steering wheel: 1. Remove the original steering wheel from the car; 2. Disassemble the original steering wheel parts (button module, shell, etc.); 3. Install the original steering wheel parts on the steering wheel body of this design; 4. Install the steering wheel as a whole on the car.
- Patents
- Patented. Patent No.ZL 2024 3 0389406.8, Patent Holder: Agiling (Guangzhou) Tech Co., Ltd. Year 2024.
Copyrights belong to Agiling (Guangzhou) Tech Co., Ltd. Year 2024. - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #2: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #3: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #4: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #5: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
