Self Straightening Steering?

[GRiLLA]

Nice review of the refreshed Model 3 from Fully Charged, but someone in the comments noticed that at 0:42 as Robert gets out the steering seems to auto-straighten, is this a thing?

 

[CMc1]

Is it not the pressure from the “steering rack” being dissipated and natural forces taking over since he’s parked on uneven ground?

 

[Adopado]

Is it not the pressure from the “steering rack” being dissipated and natural forces taking over since he’s parked on uneven ground?

In the comments there's a reply from Fully Charged to someone asking and it looks like it is actually "a thing". (I had wondered if Robert was releasing pressure on the steering wheel as he got out.)

 

[Rustybkts]

More likely is he used the steering wheel to get out of the car, same as I often do.

 

[Foucault]

I think you are right, it is just Robert getting out of the car. It does remind me of of the story of when an electric steering column was added to the Range Rover and within a year they were experiencing quite a high failure rate. Land Rover didn’t understand why as they hadn’t experienced this in testing and couldn’t reproduce the problem. It was only when they figured out that a lot of drivers used the steering wheel to get in and out of, what is, a relatively high car, that the penny dropped and the wheel was altered to allow for a higher load. On the subject of the revised model 3 it does look like Tesla has tried to address some of the issues, such as the easy scratch centre console.

 

[Garry TheBiz]

More likely is he used the steering wheel to get out of the car, same as I often do.

I agree it looks like he's brushing his legs past the underside of the steering wheel whilst getting out of the car, causing the steering wheel to rotate anti-clockwise slightly.

 

[Zakalwe]

Its parked downhill on a camber. The front offside wheel is bearing more weight than the others. The weight is bearing down through the linkages and the caster angle, so the wheel might move slightly if it is not pointing straight ahead. Plus he's getting out so there is a weight change going on.
It's just the steering system settling into equilibrium.