If you've ever driven an older vehicle without power steering or a contemporary car with a power steering malfunction, you ...

Most car-based vehicles use rack-and-pinion steering in which the steering wheel turns a pinion gear that moves on a rack to turn the front wheels. Others use recirculating ball systems in which ...

(My 1982 Ford Shop manual says the aforementioned Fox ... as BMW assessed everyone else’s efforts to make a rack and pinion steering system with modern technology. They took the lessons learned ...

Part of a rack-and-pinion steering system, the rack is a bar parallel to the front axle that moves left or right when the steering wheel is turned, aiming the front wheels in the correct direction.