The funny thing is that they put it on the S/X without changing absolutely anything else, then brought out the Cybertruck with steer-by-wire (where a yoke might actually make sense) and put a squircle on it.
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billwashere@lemmy.world 5 months agoIs nobody gonna mention this horrible KITT steering wheel?!? That damn thing is dangerous.
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m still gobsmacked the Cyberteuck 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.
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
They also don’t ship the the yoke by default anymore, the default is a regular round one and has been for a while.
Durandal@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Ever seen what real life F1 car steering “wheels” look like?
unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
They aren’t meant for public roads, just like Teslas.
Durandal@lemmy.today 5 months ago
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.
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think that’s why Tesla designed it this way. They were relying too much on self driving and not a human driving it.
mundane@feddit.nu 5 months ago
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.
anlumo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Couldn’t the sensitivity be adjusted based on the speed? Doing a hard turn during high speed is a very bad idea anyways.
mundane@feddit.nu 5 months ago
Yes it could and that is what Lexus is doing.
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.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 months ago
You mean those extremely dangerous, highly specialized cars that require a trained athlete to drive?
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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!!?
Durandal@lemmy.today 5 months 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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am a Knight Industries 2000 with a 1000 megabits of memory and a one nanosecond access time.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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 5 months ago
They are the worst drivers by infractions. Dead wheel is a culling tool.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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 5 months ago
10 and 2 is actually no longer taught. 9 and 3 is the new thing
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 5 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…