<===Heh. I used "inboard" and "outboard" just so we didn't have to deliberate symmetry with LHD and RHD countries.That's a covered storage console. See video #2 here: Tesla 3 Test drive
As a lefty, a center console sidestick (operated with the right hand) would probably be a dealbreaker. To your point, I suppose there are those who would equate "lefty" with "handicapped"
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DrManhattan
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Elon Musk on Twitter
Maybe not HUD specifically, but he could have replied to a hundred other questions not asking about a HUD, so I think there is some strong evidence there.
Microfrost
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"JSC2011-E-040200 (2 March 2011) --- The landing approach to the Kennedy Space Center is seen in a heads up display as the STS-135 crew trains in the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on March 2, 2011. Photo credit: NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool"
And all the right-handed people in the UK, Japan, and other RHD countries would have an issue, too.
Now you all have me worried. Elon used the phrase "steering system" in one of his tweets.
My interpretation is completely opposite.
I thought he meant that the lack of HUD and instrument panel would make sense after the part 2 unveil.
I think if there were to be a HUD, he would say so just like he told us that the steering wheel was not the real one.
True....OR the HUD will be amazing and he doesn't want to say anything more...like augmented reality.
ArtC
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That's a covered storage console. See video #2 here: Tesla 3 Test drive
As a lefty, a center console sidestick (operated with the right hand) would probably be a dealbreaker. To your point, I suppose there are those who would equate "lefty" with "handicapped"
I was a lefty. Then I had a stroke that effected my left arm and hand. Now I'm a righty and truly handicapped.
If we keep asking questions on Twitter and he keeps answering, he may just have part 2 sooner than planned. Haha
xmetal
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They won't get rid of the steering wheel. There's a reason that's been a basic part of the car for a century, and lots of companies have tried alternates and nobody ever wants it. Elon makes performance cars and every performance car is meant to be driven, and will have a steering wheel.
I think that we'll see a possible HUD, or perhaps a screen in the wheel, or gesture control, or something else like that but it will have something mostly round, that you can use with either hand (or preferably both) to control the car. It would be insanity to not have a wheel, and Elon may be forward thinking but he's not an idiot that aims to lose money.
I think that we'll see a possible HUD, or perhaps a screen in the wheel, or gesture control, or something else like that but it will have something mostly round, that you can use with either hand (or preferably both) to control the car. It would be insanity to not have a wheel, and Elon may be forward thinking but he's not an idiot that aims to lose money.
So the drawing is a vague representation of what they may be, or have been, intending to build, so can't read too much into it. But... in that view the steering column looks retractable.
BTW: The original Batmobile (60's TV show) had a steering wheel like that. It would take some getting use to as I often start my turns by grabbing the top of the steering wheel.
BTW: The original Batmobile (60's TV show) had a steering wheel like that. It would take some getting use to as I often start my turns by grabbing the top of the steering wheel.
I'm hoping we just get a nice flat-bottom steering wheel. First and foremost I'm a driving enthusiast and, believe it or not, that is why I'm buying a model 3. Instant, linear, and immense torque coupled with an insanely low center of gravity results in driving dynamics not attainable anywhere near this price point in an ICE power car. I don't think Tesla would do it, but it would be a shame to ruin that on some weird, and presumably less-involving, driving control system.
The way I interpret that this tweet is that the prototype had electric assisted mechanical steering ("that's not the real steering system") and the production M3 will have full drive-by-wire steering standard.
The Infiniti Q50 was first w/ such a system a couple years ago, and is rolling out a second generation system for the 2016 model year.
The benefits of this as demonstrated by the Q50:
- The driver can dial in how little (or how much) feedback from the road gets transmitted to the steering wheel. To the point that running over a pothole doesn't move the wheel at all... "Like a spaceship"
- "Lane keeping assist" features can keep the car centered in lane "like a magnet" without affecting the steering wheel or braking.
My initial concern was that Infiniti's original steering implementation was not well-received -- and recalled at one point. However the forthcoming 2016 Q50 will have a 2nd generation system that addresses the complaints.
I trust the M3's implementation will be spot-on from the beginning. If not, that's nothing an OTA update can't fix, right?
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