Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals

• topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just in civilized countries, not only Norway.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you are going hand-over-hand in a roundabout, you’re doing something very wrong…

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      With a traditional control, it is always in the same place in relation to your body

      As is the one on the wheel. Right next to your thumb.

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your thumb stays at the same place on the steering wheel when you’re not driving straight? O.o

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  • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      imagining driving through a roundabout that curves left and having to find a button somewhere on the steering wheel

      Your don’t have to “find” anything, it’s right next to your thumb

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      • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Drivers frequently change their hand placement as they turn the wheel. You lose precision and basic ability to manipulate the wheel if you don’t.

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      • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Again, it depends on the angle of the steering wheel. The buttons may be upside down if the car is turning sharply enough.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• wooki@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And Australia, at least state of NSW made it mandatory

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s law across the whole country

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    • cam_i_am@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure you don’t have to signal when exiting a roundabout in Victoria. We might be the outlier though. In Vic it’s also legal to U turn anywhere, unless a sign specifically prohibits it.

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You may be odd, though the national law is no U-turns at lights unless there is a permissive sign, allowed to U-turn anywhere else unless there’s a restrictive sign

        Be careful when driving interstate!

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