It's not that new - remote-controlled radio on the steering wheel
Sixty years ago, visitors to the Geneva Motor Show were able to marvel at a car radio that could be operated remotely from the steering wheel. This (retrofitted) steering wheel lever activated the "two-way station finder", a kind of station search function whose sensitivity could even be adjusted in two or three stages. And this was now possible in two directions, namely up or down the frequency band.
A second picture of the Blaupunkt Wiesbaden, which already had three transistors and station buttons, shows what a car radio of the time looked like inside.
Incidentally, the radio was still mostly operated by turning a rotary knob, so that there was no confusion when using the steering wheel lever for the radio.
You can find out more about the entertainment electronics available at the time in our report on the 1958 Geneva Motor Show .
