Without power steering, just about every vehicle from those classic mid-20th century behemoths to today’s smaller, denser front-wheel-drive cars, crossovers and SUVs would be difficult to steer.

and both systems rely primarily on complex gears to spin the wheels. We've mentioned that rack and pinion steering systems ...

Most car-based vehicles use rack-and-pinion steering in which the steering wheel turns a pinion gear ... ball bearings are mounted on a “worm”-type steering gear. Though steering gears often ...