alt Hacker NewsIve is an overrated plonker and my first reaction is to wonder if all the serviceable components are glued in place.
Do you know why no one has ever put rotating switches on a steering wheel face before? Because it requires two fingers to operate the switches and thus taking your entire hand off the wheel. Those knobs and switches might as well be in the center console because it takes a similar amount of effort and diversion of attention to operate.
This looks like a car designed by someone who's never driven before. Did the early prototypes feature bubble domes before they were forced to tell Ive that won't work?
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Knobs on wheel, especially for the controls on this, are normal in performance vehicles.
Ferrari has had their manettino dial on the steering wheel since the F430 in 2004.
This comment sounds like someone whos never driven manual before
> Do you know why no one has ever put rotating switches on a steering wheel face before? Because it requires two fingers to operate the switches and thus taking your entire hand off the wheel.
I hate this car as much you do, it looks like a vape cartridge on wheels to me. That being said, there are F1 cars with rotating knobs on the steering wheel. Different category and all, but still worth it to point out.
Wow I didn't see that. Standard Ive incompetence.
It's galling to see pompous, no-talent douchebags like Ive continually held out as some kind of innovator.
Porsche has a similar steering wheel mounted rotary switch. Traditionally it was on models optioned with the Sport Chrono package. They recently rolled it out to all new models over the past few years.
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/press-kits/taycan/Die-Driver...