In one episode of Modern Family, Lily's Asian pediatrician complains that her mother expected her to get married and be a mommy instead of having a career. He cites his famous kiss with Nichelle Nichols along with "Let the Asian man drive" as examples of edgy things done in his time that are just not so in the new millennium. Shatner repeated the gag in the Roast of Charlie Sheen explaining that he understood why Charlie was acting so crazy was because Shatner's generation made it more difficult for Sheen's to do edgy things because they were now passe. For God's sake, they let an Asian guy note Sulu drive! 
In the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner, Shatner at one point jokes about how brave a program Star Trek was. He says he isn't, except when it comes to them driving. In The Pink Panther 2: When Clouseau makes an inappropriate remark to his Japanese colleague, he is asked by his manners teacher about whether or not he's prejudiced towards Asians. Averted in The Green Hornet Serials with Kato, who has no problems driving the Black Beauty over 200 MPH on city roads that were definitely not built for speeds anywhere near that high. note Although he was probably drunk at the time Among his other stereotypical Asian characteristics, Long Duk Dong wrecks his American family's host car in Sixteen Candles. Crash, for all its racial-awareness apparently couldn't resist a terrible Asian driver with an horrible accent to cause said car accident. Averted in Star Trek V, when Sulu pulls off some ridiculous fancy Coming in Hot maneuver with a shuttlecraft. The example also seems to poke fun less at Sulu being Asian and more at him being fresh out of school and new to the controls, since he does fine after that. 
Why would a starship pilot know how to drive a car? This would be a more impressive example of a stereotype if it weren't for Kirk's ridiculously bad driving in the Star Trek TV Episode "A Piece of the Action," and the fact that Sulu "drives" the ship throughout the series.Luckily, this mistake saves the Enterprise by causing them to arrive late to Vulcan, preventing them from being obliterated like the rest of the fleet by Nero.
Hikaru Sulu accidentally leaves the external inertial dampers (aka, the " Parking Brake") on the Enterprise in Star Trek (2009). In the Nicolas Cage film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), one of the team members is now a driving instructor, and his most hopeless student is an Asian woman.
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