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Hi all - I'm selling my 2016 Model S 75D on carsandbids.com this week. The auction ends this Friday afternoon. The car is located in southern Wisconsin. Take a look! https://carsandbids.com/auctions/9Wv1pBaV/2016-tesla-model-s-75d?c=all

Took this photo last Thursday the 21st.

What happens when a 200lb body slams into the airbag, though? How do you know the rim of the steering wheel isn't a critical component to supporting the bag from behind? Remove half the wheel and voila you get half the impact resistance as the airbag slides up instead of being held in place. I...

Do you have that in writing? Or is that your own speculation? Are you familiar with the engineering behind the airbag and how it's supported in a collision? Yeah it's pretty similar but half of it is missing. Is liability the only kind of coverage you carry on a $85k+ car? Think of it as...

"upgrade" Sounds like a good reason for the insurance company not to cover your damages when they find out after an accident that you only had half a steering wheel installed. Have you verified that the airbag will function properly without the support of the upper part of the steering wheel?

Whataboutism.

You say that as if driving with an inferior interface is some kind of social movement that will leave behind the fuddy-duddies. It's not. You are not on the cusp of some recolution in how people use cars. You're a guy trying to mix up his own recipe of clear cola after seeing some cool kids...

Have you tried it in an emergency maneuver? Day-to-day driving is one thing. I could use a pair of pliers and get by. But it's another thing when you're on the brink of losing control of the vehicle. I think it's dangerous to one's self and to other drivers to be on the road with a yoke that's...

I have a hard time reconciling those statements. Given that a yoke is demonstrably less effective of a steering instrument as a normal wheel, it is very hard for me to understand why one would elect to make this change for something as minor as increased visibility of the dash and just a...

This is madness.

Visibility of what? The top of the dash? What do you need to see there? How short are you?

Good Lord that looks tacky af. All of those aftermarket wheels do.

Not that I really needed that confirmation, but it was enough to have me reach out to my advisor to ask them to put my order on hold for a few months. I just can't bring myself to buy a yoke without so much as a test drive. This could very well be the end of my interest in buying Teslas. I plan...

He's also a Tesla apologist and, as one of the first 25 owners, not exactly an objective judge. Motortrend, who I trust far more than a first-25 buyer, said: Something as basic as a steering wheel should not take a day or multiple days to get used to. It shouldn't take 5 minutes to get used...

The arguments for those moves were clear at the time, though. We knew USB was better. We knew floppies were going to disappear. Sure there are always people who want to cling to the old way as long as possible, and Apple/Jobs pushed that decision up sooner than it might have otherwise happened...