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I love all the judging and guessing of a feature nobody has the faintest idea how it actually works.

• zaroth 6y ago
  This is exactly the free marketing Tesla expected with releasing the renderings with the yoke. There are also renderings with a traditional wheel buried in the HTML. The outrage drives dozens of articles and a hundred million clicks, making the car the most talked about new vehicle for the next several weeks. “You won’t believe this one ridiculous thing about the new Tesla!” Mission accomplished. I would bet $100 that the Model S ships with a physical way to activate turn signals on the steering apparatus. Aside from turn signals, I think they will try to do away with the physical stalk to “gear shift” and it will ultimately be an improvement. As-is the right hand stalk is overloaded with functions for cruise and autopilot, on top of gear shifting, which makes the current incarnation sub-optimal in several specific usage scenarios. So it doesn’t surprise me they are looking to change how it functions.
• lemming 6y ago
  It's not just that feature, though. I wouldn't (in fact, didn't) buy a Tesla because of the whole attitude to the control system: let's put everything on a single screen in the interest of aggressive design minimalism. Their approach to self-driving scares me witless. I hate the childish easter eggs and the gimmicky doors. I love the EV technology, but I really dislike the car they've wrapped around it. That new feature is just another example of the general approach. I ended up with an EV that is just a normal car that happens to be electric, and it's great. I'm in the market for another EV now, and despite the fact that the Tesla X is technically the best solution for what I want to do (towing) it's not even in the running because of all the rest.