A car designed as “self driving first” provides a chance to reconsider interior design
Problem here is that you would have to be willing to recreate about 60 years of car safety development before you do that. Tesla clearly won’t, so they shouldn’t mess with the safest we’ve managed to create.
The steering wheel and column aren’t necessarily better for safety, you can set up the driver’s side the same way you’d do the passenger side and this will actually give a passenger more room and reduce lower limb intrusion (and thus better survival) during a collision.
I don’t trust Tesla not to fuck all of this up of course, but the steering column used to be the deadliest part of a car until shockingly recently. If you’re old enough to vote or drink in any country, you’re older than safe steering columns being a common feature of brand-new cars.
Problem here is that you would have to be willing to recreate about 60 years of car safety development before you do that. Tesla clearly won’t, so they shouldn’t mess with the safest we’ve managed to create.
The steering wheel and column aren’t necessarily better for safety, you can set up the driver’s side the same way you’d do the passenger side and this will actually give a passenger more room and reduce lower limb intrusion (and thus better survival) during a collision.
I don’t trust Tesla not to fuck all of this up of course, but the steering column used to be the deadliest part of a car until shockingly recently. If you’re old enough to vote or drink in any country, you’re older than safe steering columns being a common feature of brand-new cars.