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Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals (electrek.co)
submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 273 points 10 months ago (34 children)

Replacing physical controls with touch buttons continues to be an incredibly dumb idea. Luckily several other manufactures who hopped on the trend are realizing it was a bad choice.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 114 points 10 months ago (25 children)

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

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 123 points 10 months ago (3 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

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 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

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

10 and 2 is actually no longer taught. 9 and 3 is the new thing

[–] pohart@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or 8 and 4.

Keep those arms away from the airbag's path

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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)

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months 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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