• billwashereEnglish
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    Is nobody gonna mention this horrible KITT steering wheel?!? That damn thing is dangerous.

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      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

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        They are the worst drivers by infractions. Dead wheel is a culling tool.

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          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

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            10 and 2 is actually no longer taught. 9 and 3 is the new thing

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              Or 8 and 4.

              Keep those arms away from the airbag’s path

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        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.

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          Oh, I think I would hate that. Variable turning seems so bad for intuition to me.

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            If poorly executed yes. If done right it may be really awesome. Just like your steering gets stiffer at higher speeds. But obviously I never tried it (although I bet you could rig a simulator to test that theory)

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        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

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      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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        I’m still gobsmacked the Cybertruck 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.

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      They also don’t ship with the yoke by default anymore, the default is a regular round one and have been for a while.

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      I am a Knight Industries 2000 with a 1000 megabits of memory and a one nanosecond access time.

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      Ever seen what real life F1 car steering “wheels” look like?

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        They aren’t meant for public roads, just like Teslas.

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          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.

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            I think that’s why Tesla designed it this way. They were relying too much on self driving and not a human driving it.

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        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.

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          Couldn’t the sensitivity be adjusted based on the speed? Doing a hard turn during high speed is a very bad idea anyways.

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        You mean those extremely dangerous, highly specialized cars that require a trained athlete to drive?

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        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!!?

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          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.