Having stood firm with its decision to offer the Model S and X with a yoke-style steering wheel, Tesla is finally going back to a (better) round option and is even offering existing owners a retrofit.
The yoke-style steering wheel on the original Tesla Model S redesign, released in 2020
The yoke was part of a significant rethink of a car’s controls, which also included removing the indicator stalk and moving its functionality to touch controls on the steering wheel, akin to modern Ferraris. At the time, CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the move afforded drivers a better view of the instrument screen, in particular the display for Tesla’sYet another round wheel is boring & blocks the screen. FSD in panoramic mode looks way better with a yoke.
By contrast, those aforementioned race cars have just 360 degrees of steering rotation, meaning that their drivers rarely need to cross their arms, let alone take their hands off the wheel. The result was that the drivers of the new Model S and X did not have a place to put their hands when making big turns and were sometimes grabbing on nothing. That’s not only massively inconvenient but also incredibly dangerous, especially when you’re trying to make an emergency manoeuvre or catch a slide.
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