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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 17 points 2 years ago

Yikes, that is incredibly dangerous. Hopefully, they get recalled to fix that issue. No turn signal stick is going to cause a lot of accidents if people are unfamiliar with the car or are spinning the steering wheel and pressing the wrong button (or no buttons, because it's too difficult).

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 16 points 2 years ago

Can we just ban them entirely? Horrible cars.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

But you can watch Netflix on it!

🙄

[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The comment about roundabouts is the same for Australia. You wait a roundabout entrance, with your indicator telling people what you intend to do on the roundabout, and that indication stays until you are ready to leave the roundabout, which you are then required to indicate left (unless you were already indicating left!).

Having moving buttons on the steering wheel is an absolutely absurd idea. Not just for indicating, anything important (I dont mean volume control for the radio, or phone answer button) should never be on a rotating object, where it can be inaccessible or "not where it should be" in a time of need (or required).

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sometimes I need to disable the limiter, which happens to be a button in the same position as Tesla put the turn signal buttons, while in a turn, and it's just impossible.

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[–] zingo@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone remember K.I.T.T from Knight Rider in the 80's?

Same steering wheel! Haha

[–] wischi@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But K.I.T.T. actually delivered on the full self driving part.

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