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you're not normally exiting with the steering wheel inverted by 180 degrees.
I'd bet that the next update to the model 3 is steer by wire as the Cybertruck has. Which means there should be no need for the steering wheel to rotate more than 90 degrees and no confusion about where the indicator button is.
With your right hand down, is your left hand available to press the button? (the button will be near the top of the steering wheel)There is a small roundabout near me - typical of many. It has 2 lanes on each of the 4 approaches. To get onto the roundabout you have to use quite a bit of left-steer (whereas with a mini you can usually go straight, or slightly left). What that means (when turning RIGHT) is that you are in the right lane and therefore have to start with a fairly significant amount of LEFT, and then (somewhat because of that) a lot of RIGHT when you are at the far side at the point where you want to indicate left.
I haven't tried the stalkless so I don't know how it will be, but I have been trying "simulating" at various roundabouts, and there are more than a few where I have a lot of right-hand-down at the point where I would want to indicate left "leaving at next exit"
I wasn't mounting a "defence", merely communicating my own real world experience that I couldn't replicate the concerns discussed.You change indication as you pass the exit immediately prior to the one you want, you are likely to have a large degree of lock on at that point.
I suspect the easy way to not get the problem is to either not bother indicating or to indicate when the steering wheel is in a place when it’s easiest to indicate, both of those are wrong, it should determined by when it’s the correct time to indicate irrespective of steering wheel position.
We’ve had this argument countess times and now someone who’s driven it has experienced the issue, just like many predicted, the defence is either they’re driving wrong or the scenario is very rare. Neither particularly helpful
With your right hand down, is your left hand available to press the button? (the button will be near the top of the steering wheel)
It's this sort of stuff where an extended test drive can help settle your mind one way or the other - always find a quick blast up/down the road is never enough and hate the (usually legacy) manufacturers who think it isI reckon I'll have to try it to know. I shuffle the wheel through my hands, so I'm not sure where the buttons would be (in relation to hands).
But I was surprised how much "turn" I had on the wheel, as the roundabout is not mini ... but the fact that it is two-lanes-approach, and quite small, meaning "steer left to get onto it" surprised me how much "turn" I then needed to get around the back, before then easing to outside lane and taking the final exit.
What about high beam? The auto beam system is good enough these days but if you are in manual mode how long to you have to press the button for it to register, rather than just being a flash? As you pass a car and are plunged into darkness, how quickly can you turn back on the high beams (hopefully faster than the auto system)?
Some perspective from down under. I've owned the car just over a week now. My experience was as above, took me about five minutes to get used to it, I reached for the stalks a few times in my first drive, but have been fine since. Before I took delivery though I did experiment with my ICE vehicle and used the volume buttons as a stand in, with the added difficulty that I had to indicate using the stalk and then get used to finding the down volume to simulate exiting off a roundabout.Test drove it for 30 mins for the first time, got used to it in 10 mins, managed to indicate at every roundabout and turning without it being a "major challenge"