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Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals (electrek.co)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] partial_accumen 141 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Tesla is going with buttons on the steering wheel instead of a stick to the left of the wheel

Its even worse than that. The buttons are smooth surface (like a touch screen) with haptic feedback. These are truly a horrible idea:

If I had one of these Tesla cars I'd look into retrofitting the stalks back in.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you buy a Tesla at this point, you deserve to be stuck with it.

[–] TheBat 3 points 10 months ago

Up the butt?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They might get in trouble with EU laws if they do it here as well...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Gotta love good regulation.

[–] TBi 3 points 10 months ago

I thought it was already released in EU.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Holy shit that's worse than how the article put it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If this catch on, maybe 3rd party Bluetooth/USB stalk will be a thing.

[–] paf0 5 points 10 months ago

Maybe USB, but I'd certainly not want to end up having to re-pair my Bluetooth mid turn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That doesn't sound like it'll be legal in a lot of countries.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 2 points 10 months ago

retrofitting the stalks back in.

Tesla is going to sue you for 50000 :-)

[–] dual_sport_dork 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Up for right and down for left. Yeah, that makes fuckin' sense. Did they take their inspiration from the keyboard on the Apple 2GS?

It would have been smarter to zip tie the turn signal switch assembly from a 1980's motorcycle onto the steering wheel. At least on a motorcycle switch left means left and right means right (and center is cancel).