CONTROL FREEZE BUG: To help with this bug, Go into your Control Panel, open up the Keyboard settings set Repeat Delay to long and the Repeat Rate to slow. Just don’t forget to set them back to normal when you want to type something like “meeeeeeeeeh” :)
the developer had a really hard time fixing it. The problem is that Flash has issues queuing up all the game's commands. If you pause the game for a bit, the queue should resolve itself and the steering should work again.