• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      11 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

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        11 months ago

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

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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        11 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.

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            10 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)

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        11 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…

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      11 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.

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        10 months ago

        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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      11 months ago

      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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      10 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

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

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        11 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.