I'm sure a Playstation controller will be the best way for many to drive a car in the near future but don't forget they'll be driving themselves soon
I'm not sure it'd work well for me but nice to see something different and would be interesting to try. I'm sure I could adjust if there are benefits to it...
Apparently if you dig deep into the website source code, they will have a conventional option, so it may just be hype to create some initial interest before they add it in.
Left button for cannons, right for machine guns?
Well.. if they've stuck to the original RoadBlasters design ...
That’s the happiest steering wheel I’ve ever seen!
Reminds me a bit of this guy.
That’s uncanny you can hardly tell them apart except looking nothing like each other.
Dunno how you do indicators without stalks though?
Citroen CX did it
I had one as a lad - mad thing.
THe Plaid+ does 0-60 in <1.99s!
and what is it 130k squidies and 200mph now whats a Veyron supersport cost 🙂
That’s uncanny you can hardly tell them apart except looking nothing like each other.
Don’t be bringing your fun sponge in here. What about him?
It’s not a case of the sponge more there is absolutely no resemblance. That link hasn’t worked so no idea what that is.
Anyway apparently that huge tablet is also now a gaming system too.
It’s not a case of the sponge more there is absolutely no resemblance.
Tis in the eye of the beholder and it reminds me of that fella so there!
Not quite as daft as it first looked - they have touch buttons on the wheel for all the functions with haptic feedback
Whilst I agree in principle with the view that a touch screen control is less safe than something you can clearly feel, I have found the practical disadvantage to be pretty modest. I pretty much never touch the AC, for example, and volume’s on the steering wheel. And I suspect the person who constantly twiddles with AC/radio knobs is a fair bit less safe than the one who doesn’t
Surely it's got voice control?
You can keep your Teslas, I want a DS (original one, obvs)
The environmental benefits would be huge as it'd be broken most of the time and you'd never be able to drive it anywhere.
As above - Austin Allegro "Quartic" steering wheel:
You wouldn't be able to pass a driving test in the Tesla because you can't feed the wheel as required.
Surely it’s got voice control?
Voice control or not touch screen in a car is absolute garbage. Have you ever tried to use one thats mounted on the dash whilst leaning forwards? You end up like a nodding donkey prodding every damn "button" bar the one you want.
That's before you consider some folk have "silly" accents or disabilities that would prevent the voice control being effective.
Control layout they're working on for the 2022 model Teslas -
the most interesting thing about it in my opinion is that they've also done away with the gear selector. Apparently the car just 'knows' which way you want to travel (based on sensors front + rear plus gps about your route) and goes in that direction. To change it you have to use the touchscreen..
My car had a touch screen in 2006
That’s before you consider some folk have “silly” accents or disabilities that would prevent the voice control being effective.
Voice recognition is much better than it used to be.
I agree that it's a slightly daft concept to get attention, and there'll probably be a lot of markets that won't allow it anyway.
How would you select full lock on that wheel, without some annoying hand movement required.
I reckon a more extreme version of the adaptive ratio steering systems that are already used by Ford, BMW and the like. They slow the steering rate right down at high speed for stability but increase it for slow speed (car parks, maneouvering, etc) so you do less wheel-twirling.
They've already bought lock-to-lock down to under 2 turns at slow speed. You can do a bit over 1 turn without moving your hands on a yoke-style wheel.
Citroen CX did it
And my Dad's BX that I learned to drive in.
Citroen really knew how to do different back then.
we had a GSA Special, buttons and rocker switches on barrels and 3 position suspension ride height adjusters
https://topworldauto.com/cars/citroen/citroen-gsa/photos.html#gp/3
also: https://topworldauto.com/cars/citroen/citroen-gsa/photos.html#gp/11
handbrake in the dash and tape player in the centre console.
the most interesting thing about it in my opinion is that they’ve also done away with the gear selector. Apparently the car just ‘knows’ which way you want to travel (based on sensors front + rear plus gps about your route) and goes in that direction. To change it you have to use the touchscreen..
🤔 Well I am not convinced that isn't a solution looking for a problem.
Surely it’s got voice control?
It does. But:
Voice recognition is much better than it used to be.
Not necessarily with Tesla. Following an update at some point in its history the voice control on mine became somewhat worse than it used to be. Not that it was that great in the first place. It struggles a bit with even my very middle of the road english accent. Google on my phone pretty much never makes a mistake, so this seems a poor implementation, although even knowing google's works I still never got into the habit of using it.
On stalks, I struggle to see why one would want to design the indicators or gear selector into buttons rather than stalks. Stalks work so nicely with hand position and turn of the wheel.
But I'm happy enough with Tesla's touchscreens. I like that my dashboard doesn't look like an Aiwa stereo from 1992.
Anyway, I know what I'd like to see from the refreshed car and it's none of this stuff. It's better headlights, better auto wipers and an improvement to all the camera gubbins to make it work in the dark or wet.
