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Tesla style steering yoke. There's a good reason we ended up at a steering wheel for this many years IMO. A yoke is worse in every way except in "look at me I'm a special snowflake" and "I'm not actually a car". Such a thing should be an option. I'd rather have round doors or a TV screen as a windscreen than a yoke. Hard pass.

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A yoke lets a concept car show off its gauge cluster from more angles. Which is why you see them in a lot more concept cars than production cars.

There’s ~0% chance that Toyota is going to release a mass market production car with a Yoke as its primary option.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lexus-rz-steering-yoke/ They already did.

As an option? The Lexus website is showing a steering wheel in interior shots: https://www.lexus.com/models/RZ

Lexus' implementation of the yoke has been pretty successful, better than Tesla's

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lexus-rz-steering-yoke/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMrewRJTow

While I did not downvote you, the votes may be due to the fact that this is a concept car. Toyota is unlikely to produce the truck without a few tweaks towards normal production priorities, including normal steering wheels.

Your "hard pass" means you're unwilling to buy a concept car that isn't available for you to purchase.

Well, it is a concept after all. Most concept vehicles are a hard pass for me too but I guess people like them because companies keep making (usually) crazy concept cars all the time.

Also, the yoke is not a Tesla invention, F1 cars use yokes too, and with Toyota having a history in F1, this may be a nod to that.

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