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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.
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!!

it is actually kewl.. but takes a bit to get used to looking at the monitor instead of the mirror!
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ive spent a completely stupid amount of time in the drivers seat of trucks. The person is this photo is narrower than the average adult male and yet the seat is not swallowing him like an F150s would, nor does the the center console have the same width as the same F150 does.

pov fish eye whatever camera tricks someone is going to blame aside, this is absolutely not the same width inside as a ford, ram or gmc fullsize truck.
This makes sense because the total width of Cybertruck and other full size trucks are about the same. However, The thickness of the doors are NOT. So, inside the cab would be narrower.

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It’s a good point

little hard to say ,


Then I think you’re not understanding the post
You are saying visibility will be worse in the CT using a side view and the driver's eye to the lower limiting obstruction to show the CT and F-150 are about the same. I'm saying that based on my eye position in my personal F-150, the thing limiting my vision downwards is definitely the hood. In the CT, the hood is in line with the windshield so I'll never see the hood from the inside... unless it's open.
My lower limit on my eyesight to my eyes is a more horizontal line than it will be in the CT because I can see lower in it. If I've missed the point of the post, I really screwed the pooch of understanding.
 

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You are saying visibility will be worse in the CT using a side view and the driver's eye to the lower limiting obstruction to show the CT and F-150 are about the same. I'm saying that based on my eye position in my personal F-150, the thing limiting my vision downwards is definitely the hood. In the CT, the hood is in line with the windshield so I'll never see the hood from the inside... unless it's open.
My lower limit on my eyesight to my eyes is a more horizontal line than it will be in the CT because I can see lower in it. If I've missed the point of the post, I really screwed the pooch of understanding.

I think his point is the huge dash is going to be the limiting factor and will provide as much of an obstruction as the hood would on a normal truck... because the dash board is higher than the hood of the car is.... is he right or wrong.. no clue.. i wanna sit in one and find out!
 


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Side by side with my 2017 M3. I am 6'1" 200bs for reference. Shot on my iphone at 0.5x with seat all the way back with my phone touching my face. Cybertruck seams much bigger to me. Ps Can't see my hood.
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The amount of people surprised that the dash is long or that the interior design is minimalist, and they wanted a GMC styled interior instead, crack me up. It's not some kind of newfound revelation, this has been the case from day one.
RIGHT???

And yet here is Business Insider, using it as a headline attention grabber (and referencing this very thread as their source!).

This is journalism in the 21st century:

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If that screen dies, does the CT brick? How often do T owners on this site have to reboot their screens?
VERY seldom in my 2020 3. NEVER in the Y but once when we bought back in January cause cellular was being weird.
 


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My rough A-pillar visibility calculations show the CT having worse visibility than the F-150.

F-150: 96 degrees at the bottom of the A-pillars to 142 degrees at the top.
CT: 65 degrees at the bottom to 134 degrees at the top.

This is all due to the windshield being farther from the driver's eyes than in the F-150.

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But the a pillars have glass for visibility.
 

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ok the enormous flat dash looks straight ridiculous
I can deal with the a pillar blind spots but some people are going to hate that
The triangle glass actually provides a great deal of visibility in the driver's seat.
 

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I’m dumbfounded by the expressions of shock and surprise. There’s nothing here fundamentally different from the reveal, or from Teslas in general.
Yea, the internets reaction is always.... something else.

It's almost exactly what was shown in 2019 sans stupid non functional 6th seat lol(I'm sure that comment will get me flamed)

VERY very unsafe IMO. I'm 6'3 and my elbows and shoulders have no where to go when there's a 6th person. It doesn't work guys..
 

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Yea, the internets reaction is always.... something else.

It's almost exactly what was shown in 2019 sans stupid non functional 6th seat lol(I'm sure that comment will get me flamed)

VERY very unsafe IMO. I'm 6'3 and my elbows and shoulders have no where to go when there's a 6th person. It doesn't work guys..
I'm sure there could be utility from having the 6th seat. The screen does not prevent the middle airbag, but it does complicate it. Tesla probably decided the cost/benefit was unattractive.
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