Electric power steering?

Cool, but fabbing mounting points will be hard and add considerable weight, plus limit access. Might take careful design so you don't get bump steer, limit travel, or the wheel turns the wrong way. The later might be a feature once you learn to steer backwards since nobody could steal your car.

I drove my son's Cruze 2 yrs ago and ran over the asphalt warning strips on a mountain turn. The power assist cut off. I stopped and thought it had thrown a belt or broke the motor. Saw no problem, so drove on and it worked fine. Perhaps if it senses pulsing it goes into a default "no assist" mode.