I once accidentally dialed 911 from my steering wheel phone buttons while pulling a turn. Surprised the shit out of me and the dispatcher didn’t sound like this was the first call of the type. This is a fucking terrible idea.
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Wrench@lemmy.world 5 months agoWtf, seriously? I’ve tried using media buttons on the steering wheel during a turn. It’s not reliable in the slightest, because it’s a moving target.
Does the non circular steering non-wheel never go past 90 degrees or something?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You wish but it’s not drive by wire. You steel to turn in multiple times in sharp angles. Of the ratio were to change relative to speed it would make sense but right now it’s just plain dumb.
deafboy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not sure about the older teslas, but the cybertruck steering is way more sensitive, so you shouldn’t need to turn it more than 90°. And the buttons on the wheel are at least normal clicky buttons now, instead of touch sensitive areas. Which is less bad, but still pretty bad.
My old peugeot has an extra stick behind the wheel for the radio control, and it’s the best UX ever invented.
guacupado@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What? You’d be hitting the turn signal when you’re going straight. Do you drive a BMW or something?
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Turns exist on curved roads too. So do lane changes.
tautalas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What about exiting a roundabout?
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Very true, although in my experience you’re more likely to encounter someone putting on their blinker mid-turn as someone properly signaling a roundabout exit…
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or driving down a twisty road, which where I live is most roads.
GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tbf you are supposed use the signal before turning wheel
Sendbeer@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Covered in the article. In Norway you are required to signal when exiting a roundabout. It’s a fair concern.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just in civilized countries, not only Norway.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 months ago
If you are going hand-over-hand in a roundabout, you’re doing something very wrong…
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
The point is that there will be no way to handle the turn signal through muscle memory. With a traditional control, it is always in the same place in relation to your body. It doesn’t move. When it’s in the steering wheel, it can be in many, many different places. If you have media controls on your steering wheel, try using them during a turn without taking your eyes off the road. Now pretend they are smooth and act like a touch input on a dual shock controller.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s not the issue, imagining driving through a roundabout that curves left and having to find a button somewhere on the steering wheel, which is at an angle, in order to indicate right before turning tight in order to exit the roundabout.
A stalk will always be in the same position. The same cannot be said for buttons.
psud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think you’re right. People in this thread are forgetting that this steering yoke doesn’t have anywhere to put your hands other than right next to the buttons
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
And Australia, at least state of NSW made it mandatory
psud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s law across the whole country
Wrench@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In addition to roundabouts, there are plenty of freeway exists that loop around where you can be at an extreme turn and need to initiate a lane change. Or making a right turn into a gas station after a left turn at an intersection… lots of use cases.