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Your Steering Wheel Could Be More Gross Than Your Toilet Seat

Itโ€™s a safe assumption that none of us want to be gripping a toilet seat, but you might beโ€ฆwhen youโ€™re driving! According to a study from CarRentals.com , about one-third of us are driving around with a steering wheel thatโ€™s more funk-ridden than any toilet seat.

To make it even nastier? The research shows that the average steering wheel has four times more bacteria on it than a typical public toilet seat does. Howโ€™s that? When you break down the numbers, that average steering wheel has 629 โ€œcolony-forming unitsโ€ as opposed to a toilet seatโ€™s 172. Itโ€™s a little better for the cupholder and seatbelt, where the numbers are 506 and 403 respectively.

While itโ€™s common for people to eat, drink, sneeze, cough, and whatever other nasty business theyโ€™re doing in their cars, only 32% of people take the time to clean their interiors annually. Even if youโ€™re one of those meticulous car cleaners, youโ€™re still not out of the woods. The average gas pump is reported to have two million of those โ€œcolony-forming unitsโ€ scurrying about. Tasty.

Then, thereโ€™s the ride-share cars. Donโ€™t forget the Purell next time!

Source: Car Rentals


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