How to Control AWS

[Ogre]

In a different thread there are videos of a Hummer driving down a public street and you could see the back wheels turning in the same direction as the front wheels. They were moving at a very slow speed (In fact they came to a complete stop at points). I realize Tesla may do it differently, but I was wondering if rear wheel steering direction would be a function of speed. (i.e. slow speeds rear turn opposite of front, high speeds rear turn same direction as front). Apparently not for the Hummer. I'd be curious to see what the back wheels do as you turn the front wheels sharper. I"m guessing at some point the rear wheels will turn in the opposite direction to allow for a tighter turn, like a U-turn.

The car has to have some brains about what you are trying to accomplish with crab walk because you are doing 2 different things. It’s like in video games where you have one control for turning left and one for moving to the left while retaining your orientation (aka strafe mode).

On the highway changing lanes it’s obvious what the best thing to do is. On a residential street where you might be parking or doing a U turn, it’s a lot less clear.

In general I think low speed you’d want to turn and high speed move over, but… when you are parking it gets weird.

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[CyberGus]

I plan on adding these buttons to my Cybertruck.

https://abstractocean.com/products/s3xy-buttons

 

[CyberGus]

Tank turn in particular is just a party trick. I won’t assign them to any buttons because I am about 200x more likely to activate the fart horn than tank turn.

Should work nicely for some viral #epicfail YouTubes

 

[John K]

The obvious answer is with the yoke steering wheel.

Anyway, the passenger has their own yoke to control the rear.

 

[John K]

I plan on adding these buttons to my Cybertruck.

https://abstractocean.com/products/s3xy-buttons

Hope the adhesive is good. BTW, buttons are ripe to play practical jokes. Swapping buttons, changing their function. Terrible in my hands.

 

[Ogre]

The obvious answer is with the yoke steering wheel.

Anyway, the passenger has their own yoke to control the rear.

This is the most obvious answer… just like with fire engines, you control rear steering from the back seats.

 

[CyberGus]

Swapping buttons, changing their function. Terrible in my hands.

Clearly I will not be giving you rides to the airport

 

[John K]

Clearly I will not be giving you rides to the airport

I would fly to you just to get a ride in your CT.

 

[CyberGus]

I would fly to you just to get a ride in your CT.

Only if you wear mittens

 

[Crissa]

I’m going to have to figure out how to do this now, this was not a thing I knew existed.

It's a new feature this fall.

-Crissa

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