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Recently, a video of a car owner using Tesla's butterfly steering wheel and gearing has been posted online. according to the video, the driver's "butterfly" steering wheel is not as good as he thought when driving the new Model S. Especially when making a large angle turn or U-turn, it is more difficult to operate the steering wheel, and the driver in the video may also drive with a conventional steering wheel, not accurately grasping the other side of the "butterfly" steering wheel several times.

As the new model cancels the gear, the shift virtual button is set on the left side of the screen, skidding in front of the gear, sliding in reverse, and parking in automatic P gear. You can see that while driving, the driver has to keep swiping his fingers on the screen, which looks rusty and has to take care of the steering wheel at the same time.

For such a steering wheel and shift mode, many netizens have said: this operation is more speechless.

It is understood that the delivery of Tesla's new Model S Plaid began on June 11. Compared with the ordinary Model S model, the new car has a significant improvement in performance, the vehicle 0-100km/h acceleration time is only 2.1s, and has the extreme speed of the 322km/h and the range of the 628km. Apart from the performance, the biggest difference of the new car is its rectangular steering wheel. Although this kind of rectangular steering wheel is common in the racing world, Tesla is counted as the first mass-produced model to use a rectangular steering wheel in civilian cars.

Although this steering wheel is cool, in fact, when the car is driving at a lower speed, the rectangular steering wheel is very difficult to use, and even potentially dangerous. Some netizens said that Tesla was surprised to use the Yoke rectangular steering wheel directly when he was not equipped with progressive steering. But commenting on the rectangular steering wheel, Musk said, "it's great," and made it clear that there would be no progressive steering system for at least a few years: "I've been driving with a yoke steering wheel for some time, and it looks great to me. Progressive steering requires complex gearing or a wire control system without a direct mechanical connection. Our goal is to achieve it in a few years' time. "

It is worth noting that some netizens left a message to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on "whether Tesla's kinetic energy recovery system is declared and safe in accordance with the regulations". Said to combine the "kinetic energy recovery function" with the acceleration pedal, so that the acceleration pedal has a braking effect, contrary to the car driving habits, causing numerous traffic accidents that mistakenly step on the acceleration pedal. It is hoped that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will examine whether Tesla's design is reasonable and whether he has submitted a complete design description. In this regard, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology responded in the Minister's mailbox: braking energy recovery and single-pedal driving mode are one of the new technologies of new energy vehicles. These technologies are not unique to Tesla. When purchasing and using relevant new energy products, users should be familiar with the technical characteristics of new energy vehicles to ensure driving safety.

The so-called single pedal mode is through the acceleration pedal to achieve vehicle start, acceleration and deceleration and other operations, step down acceleration, release deceleration, as long as the driver is skilled, start, taxiing, braking and other operations can be accomplished by controlling the strength of the pedal. However, although the single pedal mode is sufficient to complete most acceleration and deceleration operations under normal driving conditions, drivers are prone to operational errors when emergency situations require emergency braking.

In fact, the single pedal mode uses the braking effect of kinetic energy recovery to achieve deceleration. Under the kinetic energy recovery system of the electric vehicle, the vehicle will make use of the inertia of deceleration to make the wheel drive the motor to generate electricity and bring the effect of deceleration to the vehicle. Driving with kinetic energy recovery, loosening the accelerator pedal will lead to the same deceleration process as the brake.

Tesla's "single pedal" mode caused great controversy, mainly because many drivers who first came into contact with the single pedal mode could not adapt to this set of operating habits, vehicles had a strong sense of frustration, and even suspected that driving on a single pedal would cause safety risks.

Now Tesla's rectangular steering wheel has also aroused controversy among netizens. After all, there is still a big difference between the use of the rectangular steering wheel and the conventional steering wheel. Contrary to the thinking of drivers' use habits, most drivers are already very familiar with the traditional steering wheel and do not know what kind of problems will be caused by contact with the rectangular steering wheel in the future. Perhaps Tesla wants to let everyone know in the future how to use the new rectangular steering wheel and how to avoid mistakes in the use process, which is the key.

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