Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
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Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#2lol.... who would have thought that a circular shape would be better for a steering wheel in a consumer car...
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#3lol.... who would have thought that a circular shape would be better for a steering wheel in a consumer car...
If you set out to reinvent many of aspects that are conventional of a complex machine like a car, I’ll forgive you for not getting 100% of them right.
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#4The yoke only makes sense if you use FSD beta 24/7
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#5lol.... who would have thought that a circular shape would be better for a steering wheel in a consumer car...
If you set out to reinvent many of aspects that are conventional of a complex machine like a car, I’ll forgive you for not getting 100% of them right.
Which is why you shouldn't "set out to reinvent" just for the sake of looking cool, and why Tesla is starting to be valued at what it's actually worth, aka not a whole lot.
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#6lol.... who would have thought that a circular shape would be better for a steering wheel in a consumer car...
If you set out to reinvent many of aspects that are conventional of a complex machine like a car, I’ll forgive you for not getting 100% of them right.
A single u-turn should have been all Tesla needed to understand how terrible an idea yoke is. You try arm over arm, then crash the car.
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#7As Fred mentions the main problem with the steering wheel is that the car doesn't change the steering ratio depending on the speed.
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#8lol.... who would have thought that a circular shape would be better for a steering wheel in a consumer car...
If you set out to reinvent many of aspects that are conventional of a complex machine like a car, I’ll forgive you for not getting 100% of them right.
This is a pretty generous framing. The use case differences between round and rectangular steering wheels are well understood. There was something else motivating this, not "reinventing the conventional", as it would be phrased in a TV spot.
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you set out to reinvent many of aspects that are conventional of a complex machine like a car, I’ll forgive you for not getting 100% of them right.
Which is why you shouldn't "set out to reinvent" just for the sake of looking cool, and why Tesla is starting to be valued at what it's actually worth, aka not a whole lot.
> aka not a whole lot
Lord grant me a business worth $400B, aka not a whole lot.
Re: Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
#10The yoke only makes sense if you use FSD beta 24/7
Actually isn't it more annoying? FSD will be turning the wheel a lot more than regular autopilot, but you still have to keep hands on the wheel frequently or it will disengage. It will only be better when hands on wheel is no longer required.