Marking Cybertruck steering wheel & turn signals w/ color stickers dots

[hemiarch]

I like it. Funeral bedazzling. ?
Johnny Cash style

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[FarAway]

oh yeah. You’re right.
Drivers side=left=port=red.
Sharp audience here. ?

Easy to remember with this one sentence... my IP taught this to me before I ever soloed, and I never forgot it.

"Who LEFT the cork off the RED PORT wine?"

 

[hemiarch]

Easy to remember with this one sentence... my IP told taught this before I ever soloed, and I never forgot it.

"Who LEFT the cork off the RED PORT wine?"

Awesome. Will use that with my kids

 

[REDNAVE]

I applied a carbon fiber overlay to give the squircle buttons a more tactile feel. It just uses holes instead of [bedazzle] bumps.
(I also have a CF sticker beneath the overlay)

 

[Cincycyber]

And easy way to remember and to let muscle memory take over is down on a stalk is in the same direction you turn the steering wheel, which is the same for which button to press (down). Right turns are all the same, except reversed, clockwise, and up, etc.

The problem with stalks is you have to reach for them, and decide if tap or trigger is need to overcome the detent. With the buttons, you only need to press and HW4 takes care of the rest.

I drove for 36 years with stalks, and now 7 months with a CT, I see stalks as far more effort, since my 2022 MYP has them and I rarely drive it anymore.

100% agree. A traditional turn signal stalk now seems as ergonomic as a crank on the front of a Model T. Excellent ergonomics on the squirkel. After driving my CT for 3 weeks driving my daily driver I drove for 12 years felt so awkwardly quaint.

 

[GaryS]

Except for the fact that a ship or airplane has the red on the left or port side and the green is on the right or starboard side. OP has them reversed on his squircle.

Good catch, I realized that after I put them on, so I may swap the re & green. ?

 

[hemiarch]

I applied a carbon fiber overlay to give the squircle buttons a more tactile feel. It just uses holes instead of [bedazzle] bumps.
(I also have a CF sticker beneath the overlay)

That looks very nice. I know I’m in the minority but I just don’t care for the CF look. Don’t like it in the plaid either. For whatever reason it’s always bothered me.
If someone made a piece of plastic that was plain and shaped just like those pieces I’d buy it. Brushed metal maybe or grip tape texture like the top of the dash in the AWD or alcantara or something like that.
For that matter, I’d even buy the center console hardware and the front dash piece everyone likes to change out for CF if they were in what I thought was an attractive finish.
are those cf steering wheel pieces expensive? I guess I could wrap them.

 

[webspeedracer]

That looks very nice. I know I’m in the minority but I just don’t care for the CF look. Don’t like it in the plaid either. For whatever reason it’s always bothered me.
If someone made a piece of plastic that was plain and shaped just like those pieces I’d buy it. Brushed metal maybe or grip tape texture like the top of the dash in the AWD or alcantara or something like that.
For that matter, I’d even buy the center console hardware and the front dash piece everyone likes to change out for CF if they were in what I thought was an attractive finish.
are those cf steering wheel pieces expensive? I guess I could wrap them.

Had my CT for a year and 30k miles, still wish the left & right turn signals had been located on the left/right buttons modules, respectively, of the steering wheel.
I understand there’s an anachronism of mimicking the stalk directions, and likely a desire to make turn signaling one-handed for those driving with coffee in hand, but I think it would’ve eliminated many confused signals/high-beams that I still fat-finger occasionally (especially when steering left when it the steering angle pushes my thumb out of position.

 

[GaryS]

Except for the fact that a ship or airplane has the red on the left or port side and the green is on the right or starboard side. OP has them reversed on his squircle.

Color position corrected per FAA regulations.......

 

[Mini2nut]

Lamborghini style. Blinker and windshield controls are on the steering wheel.

I think the horizontal turn signals buttons on the Lambo are more intuitive than stacking them vertically like the Cybertruck. Lamborghini owners feel free to comment.

 

[The Tesla Guy]

Ok,
Scanned through this thread looking for the obvious.

Pushing a signal stalk DOWN for LEFT.
Pushing a signal stalk UP for RIGHT.

Same logic for the buttons

Pushing the LOWER button for LEFT.
Pushing the UPPPER button for RIGHT.

No need to take your eyes off the road

There is a raised line separating the buttons that you can feel.
So DOWN from there is LEFT and UP from there is RIGHT.

 

[GFleck]

I always have to take my eyes off the road and move them over to the turn signal button to figure out which one to push. Give me back a stalk! So much easier.

How long have you had yours? For me it was the same until it finally clicked in my brain after a few months. There are a handful of things with the cybertruck, even just with Tesla's in general, that literally require you to rewire your brain, but in the end I think are actually way better.

 

[CyberJay]

I really like this idea.

Thanks

 

[NJCyberbeast]

OK, the CT is awesome. But I always felt there should be button "locations" on the steering wheel. So, I bought these gem stickers on Amazon. After 3 weeks, I will continue to use them. I placed 3 on the left side (left turn signal, right turn signal, & high beams), and 3 on the right side (front camera, wipers, & mic commands). These helped me to adapt so much better to the CT steering wheel controls. See image. These stick-on plastic gems are approximately .200" diameter & .080" high.

Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLNL9Y7N?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

FYI, there are way too many gem stickers in this under $7 pack. But you can customize as you please.....

Wipe down surfaces with alcohol before applying, that will make them stick with no problem.

I got used to the button layout within like a week…to the point that it’s muscle memory now. Only problem is when I drive my wife’s ICE car I keep reaching for steering wheel buttons even though I’m in her primitive peasant car. ?

 

[ModelXer]

OK, the CT is awesome. But I always felt there should be button "locations" on the steering wheel. So, I bought these gem stickers on Amazon. After 3 weeks, I will continue to use them. I placed 3 on the left side (left turn signal, right turn signal, & high beams), and 3 on the right side (front camera, wipers, & mic commands). These helped me to adapt so much better to the CT steering wheel controls. See image. These stick-on plastic gems are approximately .200" diameter & .080" high.

Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLNL9Y7N?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

FYI, there are way too many gem stickers in this under $7 pack. But you can customize as you please.....

Wipe down surfaces with alcohol before applying, that will make them stick with no problem.

Not sure I understand the purpose. I don't usually look at the wheel to use it.

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