How often do you drive with both hands on the wheel?

[drum]

1% max. its just too uncomfortable after driving with 1 for so many years

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
About 80% of the time, unless I'm driving long highway distances or stuck in traffic.

Yup. Same here. I find two hands to be less tiring than one hand, since you don't have to hold your hand up the whole time...the weights counterbalance.

I guess it's because I learned to drive off-road, so I got into the habit really quickly

 

[EyeMWing]

Depends. Summertime, my left arm is dangling out the window, right hand driving. Or, if I have a slurpee (a common driving accessory for me, it seems), slurpee in the right hand, left elbow on the window ledge, left hand on the wheel. Wintertime, left elbow on the window ledge (with the window shut), left hand on the wheel, right hand on the shifter, or on the wheel. I engine brake a LOT during winter.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Only when I spot a police car near me.

They don't care. Driving with two hands is not a law. "10 & 2" is merely a suggestion. Hell, I see police drive with one hand.

because they're on their cell phone.

Seriously, every cop I see, they're on their damned cell phone. It's ridiculous.

 

[Instan00dles]

low speed maneuvers, turning and thats about it so not very often.

 

[fallensight]

I drive a stick shift. Unless I'm on snow/ice or pulling a hard turn or a 'U' turn, just one hand on the wheel.

 

[Jeff7]

Almost all the time.

 

[JM Aggie08]

hardly ever

 

[Viperoni]

Maybe 15%

 

[DaWhim]

only severed weather like when I was driving through a blizaard.

 

[Otaking]

Probably 80-90% of the time because of MTX. Isn't it supposed to be safer to drive with two hands than with one?

It would be probably 98-99% if I had an ATX car.

 

[pulse8]

Rarely since I drive a manual.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
I usually drive using both hands at about only 5% of time. This is mostly during a heavy downpour or through a very windy road. All other times it's one handed because it's a lot more comfortable.

All the time, except when I am eating, drinking something, reading, dialing radio, changing cd, using my hands to emphasize a point in a conversation, getting the puppy to behave, or picking up something I dropped.

Hmm hardly ever I guess

 

[Quasmo]

Both? I drive with my knees!

 

[AsianriceX]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Having driven commercial vehicles most of my life, I learned to drive with both hands...used to be 10 and 2 o'clock positions, now they say 9 and 3 for more comfort...Once in a while, I'll catch my self driving one handed...but probably 80% of the time, I keep both hands on the wheel.

I thought it was 9 and 3 so when the air bag deploys, you don't go smacking your passenger in the face, but rather their chest... ah well, whatever works.

I drive stick, so it's usually left hand on the wheel, left elbow on door rest, right hand on shifter.

 

[Leeroy]

Um, always for me.

 

[oboeguy]

On the rare occasions I drive, I'm textbook 10 & 2 most of the time. Never drove a stick, which I guess has something to do with it.