Will the air bag in a car break a drivers wrists if they use the 10 and 2 o'clock positions and will the 9 and 3 o'clock positin save your wrists?

Tested (sort of) when they tested whether or not an air bag could take off your thumbs. With air bags 10 and 2 has a good chance of you punching yourself in the face. The thumb guards are located on 9 and 3 on a newer car to keep your arms out of the way with an air bag. 9 and 3 also offer superior control over the car.

10 and 2 is a tired old standard from back in the days before power steering. For added leverage older cars had much larger steering wheels and holding the wheel at 9 and 3 would have been impractical and tiring.

Now that power steering is a standard feature on almost every car and the size of steering wheels has gotten much smaller theres no practical reason to have ones hands on 10 and 2.

But yeah keeping in line with the myth its quite possible you will give yourself an explosive punch in the face at 10 and 2