A motorbike doesn't have a steering wheel. Your hands grip the bars and there is limited side to side movement, but your hands and controls are always in the same place.
Sounds like some serious markups on "dealer servicing" at Tesla....
(free coffee from savings is still free coffee )
They are big expensive tyres. Definitely a bit of what oldcorrollas said too, what will the market bear, let's charge somewhere around that.
Everyone is freaking out about it, but in the real world it appears not as big a problem as people think. It's only an issue on tight roundabouts, everywhere else it works exactly like a motorbike, except it cancels automatically after you complete the corner. Even living in Canberra, I do not go through any tight roundabouts on my daily commute. There is speculation, that eventually it will hook in with the GPS and cameras and just indicate/cancel for you, in that case it becomes a dumb idea to have stalks. It may be the case with auto indicating that in 5 years there will be no stalks in any cars.
Less shit to go wrong, more profit to be made. Simples. On the cameras, an auto indicate function wouldn't need them if it uses GPS. Of course you would have to tell the car where you are going first. The exception would be overtaking, in that case the button on the wheel is not an impedement because you barely turn the wheel.
Agreed, straight ahead doesn't change the position of the buttons.
I've never had a button fail in a car in the 30 years I've been driving. And I've owned two TVRs!
Must have been the only things that didn't fail. lol
Well the first one had a faulty lambda sensor but then it was trouble free for 6,000 miles. The second one needed a gearbox recondition and the big fuse failed but that was an older used model.
Faark, we agree on something.
Tesla I dont think are responding to other EV makers, they can still sell every car they make. From what I've read at least its more about managing demand on the factories. They're running all their factories as hard as they can, but when there are model changeovers etc and having doing refits etc they need to hose down demand so the prices go up - and when everything is humming along they can open up the demand tap again. Its all about avoiding havign to store cars, and manage wait times for customers.
Dont worry, that soiled feeling will wash off eventually. If lots of soap doesn't work, try lots of alcohol.
Trying, I feel dirty.
Only if you indicate like a NSW person.
