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by bfieidhbrjr 2081 days ago
The whole point is that you won't be driving it soon, so you can put whatever you want on the panel at that point.

We can argue how far away that is etc, but that's the mission statement.

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> The whole point is that you won't be driving it soon,

Yet they continue to manufacture cars with legacy, tactile steering wheels. Curious.

> Yet they continue to manufacture cars with legacy, tactile steering wheels. Curious.

That's still required by federal (!) law, cf. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/393.209

Your federal law does not necessarily apply everywhere a tesla may be purchased and operated (I'm not saying it makes economic sense or anything, just that US law is likely not the sole reason it's there)
Yeah, any day now, just like they were going to self-drive to deliver in 2016.