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Comment by Grombobulous

2 days ago

As Doug DeMuro would say, this is a “rich guy go fast” car.

Is it going to be fun and engaging to drive? Absolutely not. It doesn’t even have a steering wheel.

Finally, a vehicle that’s perfect for the CEO in your life who wants to upload his brain to a data center powered by the body heat of his employees hooked up to the pods from The Matrix.

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modeless  2 days ago

It has a steering yoke. F1 cars also have a steering yoke. Are F1 cars not fun and engaging to drive?

It also has steer-by-wire which makes the steering yoke practical as they can tweak the steering ratio to prevent the need to go hand-over-hand. As they did for the Cybertruck.

  • Grombobulous  2 days ago

    Steer by wire is fun? How? I think the wheel being directly connected to the road is more fun.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=USSHxtHLHc8

    Driving an F1 car is fun in the same way that cycling in the Tour de France is fun. Everything about that experience is purely for function and competition.

    I think Louis Hamilton has a lot more fun in his Ferrari F40 than in his F1 car.

    • modeless  21 hours ago

      "Directly" does not describe how modern steering wheels are connected to the road. Steer by wire could be fun or not fun depending on how it is implemented. Of course for this car fun is the priority.

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