[zzz345345]

lol.... who would have thought that a circular shape would be better for a steering wheel in a consumer car...

[mkraft]

If you set out to reinvent many of aspects that are conventional of a complex machine like a car, I’ll forgive you for not getting 100% of them right.

[happytoexplain]

This is a pretty generous framing. The use case differences between round and rectangular steering wheels are well understood. There was something else motivating this, not "reinventing the conventional", as it would be phrased in a TV spot.

[jrm4]

Which is why you shouldn't "set out to reinvent" just for the sake of looking cool, and why Tesla is starting to be valued at what it's actually worth, aka not a whole lot.

[svnpenn]

A single u-turn should have been all Tesla needed to understand how terrible an idea yoke is. You try arm over arm, then crash the car.

[zzz345345]

I won't forgive Elon Musk for trying to put a transmission in an electric car... luckily it didn't work.