Hand clutch in cars

With my legs paining each time I press the clutch, I am wondering whether car makers have ever thought about providing a hand clutch? If bikes can have clutch control in hands and cars can have cruise control and paddle shifting of gears, why cant we also have a hand clutch? At least, I can transfer my pain from my legs to my hands when I want!

A historical Street View

Google Street View is an idea I liked. But it shows the street as of today. Is there a possibility to show a history of a street with a slider so that we can see how a street has changed over the years? Yes, I agree that Google is finding it tough even now to get images of all streets, but is this possible for those streets which have sufficient number of images already? Can this be recreated with appropriate software from old images that are available online from different users (say in Google Images, flickr, picasa, facebook etc)?

A mouse which doesnt descriminate!

Generally, many of the computer mouses are made to tailor right handed use. There are few others which are made such that build-wise, they are suitable for both side usage. But still, the behavior of the mouse has to be administered to indicate which type of usage is intended. So when it has to be changed for left handed from right handed, you have to go to some application and set the same. But why?

Can't we have a mouse which can detect why type of hand is holding it? Cant we have some simple sensors which can automatically detect if the finger layout is of a right hand or left hand? I am sure we have the technology to do so, but may be, nobody (relevant) has thought about it. Hope some mouse manufacturers read this and implement this in their products...