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Teslas Now Being Delivered with Turn Signal and Cruise Control Stalks Swapped!
- Thread starter schneiderjohn
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There's more buttons on that wheel than on the entire Model S. I think with the Tesla design obsession with minimizing the amount of buttons (Elon frequently brags about it in interviews), they'll never go in this direction. I don't blame them either, sometimes less is more, to me the Ford steering wheel looks like a nightmare designed by people with little regard for the end-user experience.
breser
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I didn't even realize there was a light since mine has the new stalks until today (took delivery yesterday). You can never see the cruise stalk it's always covered up now.
Do people really use cruise control that much anyway? May on a road trip I'll get to use it, but it's literally a handful of time per year for me...then again, I'm not in the habit, most of my driving years were in the UK, where the car was a manual, and cruise control, if available, was entirely pointless due to the traffic conditions.
breser
AutoPilot Nostradamus
Assuming you got the sensors for it which I didn't. I'd say there's probably 2000 cars out there that got the swapped stalks and not the sensors (based on the roughly two weeks that the stalks were in production before the sensors started turning up). Who knows if the haptic features are in those 2000 cars or not.
breser
AutoPilot Nostradamus
Given that there are now pictures of the cruise stalk for the cars with sensors showing something that appears to be planned for ACC. It's look like there are more and more bits missing even from the very recent cars. I'd bet that the haptic feedback bits aren't there either.
Posted this in another thread but this is what my car without the sensors but with the new stalk order looks like. The new cruise stalk has a label on the end with the indention and that bit turns (mine doesn't).
breser
AutoPilot Nostradamus
Steering wheel position adjustment.
Edit: Guess I should have noticed there was another page and read it before replying.
I have never heard of a "vented steering wheel". What is that exactly? Cool air comes out of tiny slits in the wheel?
Yup! Has a thin perforated ring around the steering wheel rim which (optionally) blows air. I didn't get to play with it enough to know if the air is heated or cooled. Around here steering wheels often can burn hands from sitting out during the day.
My friend's Ford Raptor is a very amazing truck. Surprising ride quality. Really odd mix of features and missing features. He has a forward camera with night vision but no rear facing camera.
I have the new setup on mine with the cruise control on the bottom. This feels more natural to me. I got a loaner last week with the older setup and that just confused the heck out of me. A lot of people probably thought I was jerk when I would switch lanes without the blinker and suddenly decelerate 5mph.
Newscutter
Member
In case you, like me, were wondering what the blank was closer to the base of the turn signal stalk... Here's what I found-- it's for rear wipers (which the Model S doesn't have). Just thought I'd throw that out there for context.
nhirsch
Member
damn. now they have they way they should have had it all along. would love to get it swapped to match my other car.
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