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Re:Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on M... by porphyra on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:37AM (#34271397)
The yoke is very comfortable to rest your hand on while FSD is enabled, doesn't obscure the instrument cluster display, and you get used to it immediately. Like the old saying goes, don't knock it till you've tried it.
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Re:Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on M... by kj34kj on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:03AM (#34271536)
But the Y has no instrument cluster. Which is one of my favorite features! Because in any other car, I always find part of the instrument cluster occluded by the wheel.

I do agree that the yoke partially solves this problem, but it introduces many others (so I've heard; I admit I haven't tried it). Regardless, I'd just rather have no cluster.

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Re:Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on M... by Mawr on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:19AM (#34273889)
> The yoke is very comfortable to rest your hand on while FSD is enabled

Seems like the opposite is true: https://youtu.be/-QBWfw_nkr0?t=152

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Re:Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on M... by porphyra on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:42PM (#34278082)
Letting the wheel slide through your hand like that doesn't apply a torque, so you will get nagged and you will have to jiggle the wheel once in a while. By resting your hand on the corner of the yoke, it has just enough torque to keep the system happy indefinitely.
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