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Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals (electrek.co)
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[–] 114 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Is nobody gonna mention this horrible KITT steering wheel?!? That damn thing is dangerous.

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  • [–] 123 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Yeah round wheels are not a fuckin style choice. It’s so you can grab it anywhere in any situation. This steering wheel looks fuckin deadly

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They are the worst drivers by infractions. Dead wheel is a culling tool.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can’t even grab 10:00 and 2:00 on it. Looks like the closest you can get is 4:00 and 8:00

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only way a yoke would make sense is if it was drive by wire and could vary the ratio of the wheel dynamically depending on speed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, I think I would hate that. Variable turning seems so bad for intuition to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    If poorly executed yes. If done right it may be really awesome. Just like your steering gets stiffer at higher speeds. But obviously I never tried it (although I bet you could rig a simulator to test that theory)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    It’s a yoke because top tier race cars use yokes and Elon thinks his teslas are that for some reason. Completely disregarding all the setup and engineering race cars have that make a yoke the more viable option than a wheel…

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  • [+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I’m still gobsmacked the Cybertruck is now a thing. Does nobody remember that we were ridiculing the design of that monstrosity 15 years ago?

    Like it disappeared for a while, and now it’s suddenly in production with no changes, nearly two decades later? I feel like I’m from a Mandela universe.

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  • [+] -25 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Ever seen what real life F1 car steering “wheels” look like?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They aren't meant for public roads, just like Teslas.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh absolutely not. Just mentioning it in reference to the way the KITT yoke looks.

    TBF KITT could self drive just fine so he didn’t need a very functional “wheel” heh.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Those are way more sensitive so there is no need to turn hand over hand. The downside is that that sensitivity can be really hard to handle at high speeds.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Couldn’t the sensitivity be adjusted based on the speed? Doing a hard turn during high speed is a very bad idea anyways.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes it could and that is what Lexus is doing.

    https://youtu.be/agMrewRJTow?si=_M55DbNd3I4uUvMu

    But Tesla is not doing that, so there you still have to turn hand over hand even though you don't have a round wheel.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not sure why you got down voted so much. Yeah those “wheels” look horrible. But I guess they are professional drivers. And all those buttons and knobs!!?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Likely assumed I was defending the musk mobile rather than just making conversation. I spose I should have been more explicit.

    F1 racing is a way different type of driving than “normal” driving. Less need for lots of turning the wheel quickly and more need for controlling car features.

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