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[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's not designed with roundabouts, (i.e. road infrastructure designed with logic and common sense) in mind.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not designed with any common sense in mind. They just figured they could a) cut costs and b) make the vehicle look "cleaner", because Musk and the people who work for him are intellectually incurious morons who refuse to learn why things are designed the way they are before trying to reinvent them.

The thing about breaking the rules is that if you want to really do it well, you have to understand why those rules exist in the first place. That's hard to do when you start from the position of just assuming that you're smarter than everyone else.

[–] kameecoding 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i am not sure they even kept the cost down since they had to reintroduce the option of normal steering wheels, this just another case of Musk thinking it looks cool so it should be, but then done poorly because they don't have the engineering expertise to do it properly like lexus did it

This is just another case of Cybertruck shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] kameecoding 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

How did Lexus do it?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

It was designed to cut costs and hope fanbois would think it was innovation. It's so dangerous a change it should be banned in countries where drivers are expected to properly indicate while traversing roundabouts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cuz that's the only place you want to signal intent to other drivers?

[–] Bazoogle 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, in a roundabout how else are the other drives gonna know you turn right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There are other places you signal intent. At every turn in fact