POLL: Regular Steering Wheel or Yoke?

Regular Steering Wheel or Yoke?


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Personally I do a lot of driving with my hand resting on the top of the steering wheel. I prefer a wheel for comfort factor. Really hope the yoke isn't the only option.

Also, I live in a place that gets big time snow most of the year, so FSD won't really work. :/

Love everything else about the CT! Gonna be a badass overland adventure rig for me!

Anyone else gonna be driving this thing in heavy snow? Cheers.
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In a collision, especially one you are not expecting, the airbags will deploy. If your hand is on the top of the steering wheel, it will be forced back into your face. That will result in blunt force trauma to your head equivalent to hitting the steering wheel and break your hand and arm.

-Crissa
 

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In a collision, especially one you are not expecting, the airbags will deploy. If your hand is on the top of the steering wheel, it will be forced back into your face. That will result in blunt force trauma to your head equivalent to hitting the steering wheel and break your hand and arm.

-Crissa
Thank you for this, lol. But seriously, no one drives 10 and 2 at all times.
 

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In a collision, especially one you are not expecting, the airbags will deploy. If your hand is on the top of the steering wheel, it will be forced back into your face. That will result in blunt force trauma to your head equivalent to hitting the steering wheel and break your hand and arm.

-Crissa
Certainly a possibility but personally, it's not high on my list of concerns.
 


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Personally I do a lot of driving with my hand resting on the top of the steering wheel. I prefer a wheel for comfort factor. Really hope the yoke isn't the only option.

Also, I live in a place that gets big time snow most of the year, so FSD won't really work. :/

Love everything else about the CT! Gonna be a badass overland adventure rig for me!

Anyone else gonna be driving this thing in heavy snow? Cheers.
I will..lots of snow..... and the yoke is okay by me.... it'll force me ( and you ) to hold the 'wheel' in a better location.
 

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Thank you for this, lol. But seriously, no one drives 10 and 2 at all times.
I did. But I'm training myself out of it, now that I know it's a bad idea. I definitely do not sit my hand atop the wheel! Mostly they talk about thumbs-in causing injuries, so holding it with the heel of your thumb seems ideal.

-Crissa
 

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I voted yoke. It’s as close to feeling like I’m driving KITT as I’ll ever get.

On a serious note though, I’ve owned many a new vehicle where at first the wheel and its position relative to seating position felt greatly different from my previous vehicle but I always eventually got used to it. Sure, the yoke is different then just changing the position but like anything, I expect in time I’ll adjust. Time will tell though.
 

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Have you watched DirtyTesla’s FSD beta videos from last winter. He lives in the sticks in Michigan and did several videos showing FSD doing fine in snow on dirt roads. Before going further with snow as an argument you might watch those videos.

I am for the yoke with one reservation and that is the turn sensitivity especially while backing up a trailer or boat. I suppose Tesla may provide some FSD-like feature to help but, sight unseen, it seems that the yoke as it stands might make this a challenge.
 

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Don’t care, will adapt to either. If drive by wire progressive steering, I would want the yoke.

if a option, picking cheaper option if no features are dependent. I don’t think there Will be a factory option.
 


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Don’t care, will adapt to either. If drive by wire progressive steering, I would want the yoke.

if a option, picking cheaper option if no features are dependent. I don’t think there Will be a factory option.
If I were forced to make the choice today I'd probably stick with the setup I have in the Model Y just because it would be easier to transition between the 2 vehicles. But I have no qualms about the truck shipping *exactly as it was demoed* and doubt the yoke will be a big concern long term.

That said... Tesla should troll all the yoke haters by making it an option, then only shipping the ones with the wheel after all other models have shipped.
 

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In a collision, especially one you are not expecting, the airbags will deploy. If your hand is on the top of the steering wheel, it will be forced back into your face. That will result in blunt force trauma to your head equivalent to hitting the steering wheel and break your hand and arm.

-Crissa
I always wondered what would happen if the airbag deployed while I was chugging a bottle of beer
 

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I'm hoping that by the time the CT, HW4 and FSD are all released then the yoke will be preferable since level 5 autonomous driving should be upon us for all but the most fringe of cases. Hopefully the opt for hands free at that point so that the yoke will just be decorative and more out of the way than a wheel would be.
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