• billwashere
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    1106 months ago

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

    • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      1216 months ago

      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

      • LazaroFilm
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        136 months ago

        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.

          • LazaroFilm
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            6 months ago

            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)

      • JJROKCZ
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        126 months ago

        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…

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      136 months ago

      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.

      • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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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.

    • @DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz
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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.

    • @Durandal
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      -266 months ago

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

        • @Durandal
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          56 months ago

          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.

          • billwashere
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            16 months ago

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

      • Martin
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        96 months ago

        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.

      • billwashere
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        -26 months ago

        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!!?

        • @Durandal
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          36 months ago

          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.