Recognized Elon Musk critic Mark Cuban is able to promote his Tesla due to a easy characteristic that is among the extra polarizing amongst group members.
Cuban and Musk have gone head-to-head in a number of back-and-forths on X, Musk’s social media platform, previously Twitter. Nonetheless, it isn’t the general public spats that the 2 have shared that makes Cuban wish to promote his automotive. The truth is, it’s one thing comparatively trivial and a characteristic that many might simply alter to within the matter of some minutes of driving.
For the entrepreneur and former proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks, it’s a characteristic that each driver should use, however Tesla briefly modified it within the Mannequin 3, Mannequin S, and Mannequin X: the flip sign.
With the refreshed variations of the S, 3, and X, Tesla selected to eradicate the flip sign stalk, as a substitute choosing a flip sign button, which is positioned on the steering wheel. This was a change that was extraordinarily polarizing among the many Tesla group, with many requesting that the corporate reverse the change with the brand new Mannequin Y.
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They listened, and the latest model of the all-electric crossover has a stalk. No flip sign haptics can be found on the brand new Mannequin Y.
That is one characteristic Cuban stated he can not get into, and as a substitute chooses to drive his Kia EV6, which he stated he’s “snug with.”
On the Your Mother’s Home podcast, Cuban commented on the stalk and switch sign button dilemma inside the automobile:
“On the Tesla, you’ve obtained to search out [the turn signal] and push the button…whilst you’re driving. You possibly can’t take note of the highway as a lot. [The Kia] doesn’t attempt to be too fancy. Your flip sign is like, a flip sign.”
It’s laborious to think about that somebody’s consideration is taken away from the highway when pushing a button. In my check drive of the brand new Mannequin 3 final yr, I famous that the button was positively an adjustment, nevertheless it solely took a couple of minutes to regulate to:
“It solely took me about three or 4 turns, or roughly ten minutes, to comprehend I wanted to cease reaching for stalks. I really feel just like the buttons are tremendous handy, however there have been occasions I might push the sides or corners, and the sign wouldn’t come on.”
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No less than to me, it’s not tremendous plausible that pushing a flip sign button takes your consideration away from the highway for greater than a cut up second. Do I like the normal stalk extra? Sure. Nonetheless, it could not make me promote a automotive I actually loved driving.
Cuban additionally stated that his son referred to as the EV6 “a nerd automotive,” to which he replied, “Precisely.”
