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The Yoke-style steering wheel doesn’t make any sense on a car with a normal steering ratio. They’re designed for small race cars with fast steering ratios that
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
The Yoke-style steering wheel doesn’t make any sense on a car with a normal steering ratio.
They’re designed for small race cars with fast steering ratios that never have to make small, tight turns like a U-turn or a parking maneuver. If you almost never need to turn the wheel more than 90 degrees, you don’t need the top and bottom of the wheel. That’s not the case on a daily driven street car.
Even the professional race car driver who reviewed the car insisted that the Yoke be switched back to a normal wheel so he could actually drive it properly on track.
This feels like the industrial design team fell in love with the looks and marketing aspects of the yoke wheel and ignored the total lack of practicality.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoRegardless of steering ratio they're designed around people who can be expected to want to hold the steering wheel a certain way for a certain task. Normal people doing normal driving want to grab the top, bottom, etc. depending on what's most comfortable and natural in the moment.
- new_realist 5y agoThis is Elon’s doing, not the design team’s. He is a liability to Tesla.
- imwillofficial 5y agoYeah you pulled that out of your ass
- hef19898 5y agoWell, Elon gave us 50s style rockets. And Spaceballs flame throwers. So why not KITT?
- avereveard 5y agoImmagine this thing autoparking. A round wheel spinning has no edges to bump or catch on things. This yoke makes hard to judge whether your knees are enough away from it.
- erpellan 5y agoSame with indicator stalks - not all road junctions are at 90 degrees - I'd love to see a video of activating a yoke-mounted turn signal with it turned. I don't want to do trig just to find the turn signal and then have right and left switched around because the yoke is upside down.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoMakes sense if you care about marketing over actual usability.
- ArcturianDeath 5y agoExactly. Theyre dummies
- xiphias2 5y agoWhen my friend was telling me how stupid the yoke wheel is, I told him, and was just assuming that Tesla will just implement dynamic steering and it will be pretty cool. Now what I think is that Elon may not have listened to his engineers, but at least he's really good at listening to sales numbers.