Greshnab
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- First Name
- Doug
- Joined
- May 14, 2023
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- Location
- Fort Worth, Tx
- Vehicles
- Model Y
- Occupation
- Software Arrchitect
i agree with what you said.. but did want to mention in the model Y when you turn on your turn signal you see that sides camera.. i am assuming that won't change.. same with reverse put it in reverse and the display shows the rear camera!!Since the steering is electrically controlled rather than mechanical (whether with or without power boost), you may not have to/be able to turn the steering wheel/yoke past 90 degrees. If so, there's no problem knowing where your hand is, and no need or possibility for a motion like with a spinner on a round wheel.
Imagine a steering like that which is also a bit proportional, where the further from center you go, the more each degree of the wheel changes the steering. You wouldn't have to move much at all.
And the cameras can probably see better than you can (front as well as back). I assume there's a backup view on the touch screen.
Clearly there will be some different habits to learn, but that's true with different classes of vehicles as well (you ever notice the steering wheels on a bus? bigger and at a different angle than most other vehicles, but there's reasons for that). And for all that it's a pickup truck, the Cybertruck is not like others. For someone adaptable, it takes a day or two to start getting used to something very different, and no more than a few weeks for mental autopilot to be doing its job reasonably well, maybe two or three months on all the familiar routes to be as good as in one's last vehicle.
RTFM (Read The Friendly (actually F-ing, in response to clueless user) Manual)! The more you're aware of even if you don't relate to it until you use it, the better you know what's available to you. And at first on an easy road with quiet traffic, try the various features. If there's an abandoned parking lot without curbstones, put up some cones and see what you can do in a slalom; try for precision more than speed! In a similar empty but perhaps not abandoned parking lot, at first snowfall (or rain if you don't have snow), try a few donuts to get the feel (not too many, or someone may complain or a cop may notice). No big deal.
it is actually kewl.. but takes a bit to get used to looking at the monitor instead of the mirror!
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