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

• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unless I’m making a very sharp turn (in which case my turn signal should already be on), yes, of course it does.

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• Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Again, it depends on the angle of the steering wheel.

        Again, no it doesn’t. The button should always be in the exact same position, relative to your thumb.

        The buttons may be upside down if the car is turning sharply enough.

        If you’re turning that sharply, you’re not going to need turn signals.

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• psud@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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