{"id":43063,"date":"2018-07-21T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T12:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/passione-volante\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T09:07:18","slug":"passione-volante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/passione-volante\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBITION_”Passione Volante”_Steering Wheel Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good thing it\u2019s still there! The stee- ring wheel, I mean<\/strong>. Perhaps it\u2019s the last bastion of the great tradition of the automobile industry, always ready to exploit the march of technology, in the sense that,\u00a0well, almost everything else has changed about cars.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s think about it, yielding a little to the seductive charm of nostalgia. Who still remembers those crank handles for win- ding down your windows on a hot summer day? And is it not true that the growing po- pularity of automatic transmissions has stolen away the thrill of the gearshift, that pleasurable jolt from second to third? And what happened to the clutch pedal? Today, many models even have windscreen wipers that start automatically at the first drop of rain …<\/p>\n

Heavens above, this isn\u2019t about opposing progress. And yet, fortunately, thank goodness, we\u2019ve still got the steering wheel. It\u2019s there, albeit in its sophisticated modernity, as if to represent an extreme\u00a0physical connection between the human being and the mechanical means. Even\u00a0 in autonomous \u2018driverless\u2019 cars, driven by software and sensors, our beloved wheel remains, resists and survives.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is no coincidence, then, that the Nicolis Museum<\/strong>, a treasure trove of passion and culture (with over two hundred vintage cars, one hundred and five motorcycles, one hundred and twenty bicycles, five hundred cameras and one hundred typewriters), has chosen to dedicate an exhibition space to that most faithful friend of man and driver, above all that driver seeking a journey of emotions, memories, adventures and mysteries yet to be unveiled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[\u2018On and on \/ there is a man behind the wheel \/ he has two eyes that he looks like a devil …\u2019]\u00a0 (Francesco De Gregori).<\/em><\/p>\n

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