Yoke steering wheels have been done to death. Almost always, they're a gimmick intended to highlight the edgy design of a kit car or exotic outlier. Less often,

Yoke steering wheels have been done to death. Almost always, they're a gimmick intended to highlight the edgy design of a kit car or exotic outlier. Less often, they're a workaround for bad cockpit design that fails to account for a standard steering wheel [0] [1]. Rarest of all, a yoke steering wheel ends up being used in a production car, without a trace of irony, failure, or gimmickery [2]. Tesla is recycling a feature that first went into mass automotive production in 1955. The 1980's did it better though [3] [4]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Allegro#Reputation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Allegro#Reputation [1] <ahem> https://electrek.co/2021/07/23/elon-musk-confirms-tesla-not-offer-regular-steering-wheel-model-s-x/ https://electrek.co/2021/07/23/elon-musk-confirms-tesla-not-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT#/media/File:KITT_Interior_at_Toronto_Auto_Show_2011.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT#/media/File:KITT_Interior... [4] https://www.thedrive.com/news/33416/the-1986-oldsmobile-incas-had-the-wildest-dashboard-youve-never-seen https://www.thedrive.com/news/33416/the-1986-oldsmobile-inca...