Musk and his team of designers who don’t actually drive suffer from the delusion that change for its own sake equals progress.

Someone needs to Tattoo on Musks forhead Keep It Simple Elon or KISE

I’d even go so far as to say if the button on the Tesla were on opposite sides of the steering wheel and appropriately sized, it would be acceptable. You just put your thumb in the area the turn signal should be, it activates, and you don’t have to worry about the placement.

I think Tesla’s end goal is to make a car that’s basically an iPhone with wheels and seats and (usually) a roof. Every step towards the featureless-monolith esthetic is a step in the wrong direction in terms of function, for both cars and communication devices, but as long as they (and their customers) think it looks…

Ferrari is also using a physical button that you can feel without looking at it. Tesla is using capacitive buttons that feel no different from the rest of the wheel, which is way worse. 

Like how do you to a U-turn without a round steering wheel anyway? I’m so confused...

Yeah, no shit. Also how can the Cybertruck with all its sharp edges and pointy corners pass pedestrian safety tests? I guess Elon just hands out the biggest bribes, now that he is moar rich than even Bezos.

I assume there’s no way it’s legal and that it’s a Knight Rider reference to get people riled up. Clearly it’s working.

Musk could release a car with a triangle steering wheel and it would sell like hotcakes to Tesla stans. 

That’s reason enough to hate Tesla, in my eyes.  Can’t have one without the other, unfortunately.

Great job Jason, now you’ve done stirred up the foaming-at-the-mouth Tesla stans and now we have to listen to how “anti-tesla” jalopnik is for another couple weeks.

That’s because Tesla fans are insane.

Because the DOT is more concerned with allowing non-amber indicators and indicators that interrupt the function of a brake light, as well as mandating a manually activated high beam switch over the much more advanced system that they employ in the EU.

This is design hubris.

Can we bitch about the stupid as hell steering wheel instead? I mean I thought KITT was badass when I was 5, but when I got to sit inside one of the “hero” cars a few years back I realized how much it would suck to actually drive daily with that style wheel. 

New GMG tactic.
Lead with a giant error in the first paragraph.
Everyone slams you in the comments.
Count all that interaction toward ad rates.
PROFIT!

no that costs money, and money is evil. Or something like that. 

Reverse:

First Gear: Tesla didn’t even outsell the VW brand.  Christ almighty doesn’t anyone proofread anything around here anymore?

A surprising number of unrelated articles get Tesla shoehorned into them, so it is an understandable error.