driver's seat

Tenants hunting for office space in the Los Angeles area are in the driver’s seat as vacancies plague many landlords trying to fill their buildings with people.

Unlike Waymo vehicles, the taxis will have no driver’s seat or gas pedal.

We put ourselves in the driver’s seat.

The election of Donald Trump seemed to put the company’s leader, Elon Musk, in the driver’s seat of efforts to push U.S. government policy in directions that would put more profits in Tesla’s pockets.

"The police came and when they found me I was in between the two seats. I wasn't actually in the driver's seat," he recalls.