I tried to compensate by sitting on a rolling stool but soon found myself spending more time spinning and wheeling back and forth between patient and computer than I did sitting still and listening.
Flick the steering wheel back and forth and the Carver bobs left and right like a prizefighter dodging jabs.
Turned loose, the riderless machine struggles for balance by violently swinging its front wheel back and forth and then repeatedly performs a series of ungainly tumbles.
On a straight patch of road, Mr. Atallah demonstrated the car's driving dynamics (or lack thereof) by moving the steering wheel back and forth.
At moments the camera, which nervously wheels back and forth among the three characters, seems almost to be stalking them to steal a glimpse of their dirty secrets.
The two boys had come home from the hospital only a week apart; together, they'd pedalled their Big Wheels back and forth on the sidewalk as toddlers, then braved kindergarten with matching backpacks and lunchboxes.
Within the turret, gun crews could move two 11-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns, mounted side-by-side on brass wheels, back and forth on parallel wrought iron rails as they fired and reloaded.
Project managers hope to remedy the situation by rocking the wheel back and forth, or perhaps resurrecting the wheel that failed last year, an effort that will probably take several months, according to Kepler's deputy project manager, Charles Sobeck of the Ames Research Center.
The mountainous interior of the island, "like the central ridges of a crocodile's armour" as Fleming put it in "Live and Let Die," is a constant pull on the steering wheel, back and forth, through little villages, past cliffside sundries shops and on numerous detours into rutted, gravel-spattered dirt roads.
