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If you had read the article, you would know that this has nothing to do with your car. You can learn to drive whatever car you want in Norway.
Some Norwegian driving schools are making it policy not to buy Teslas as training vehicles because they use non-standard controls. They only want training vehicles that use standard controls, because that's the best way to teach a student.
This makes sense. If most cars have a stalk, teach students to drive that way, not with the weird car that's slowly transforming into an Xbox. If students own a Tesla, they can still learn to drive it, the driving schools are just unlikely to have that model in their lot.
Not even sure why an article was needed. No shit they're going to want cars with standard controls for driving schools.
The point of the article is to say "new Tesla indicator controls are bad and unsafe"
which they really aren't in the first place I've used it and never had a problem
That makes a lot more sense.
I made a similar decision in that my teen is not allowed to use my Tesla while learning to drive. Regardless if the turn signal controversy, Tesla controls are different. It’s easy enough for an experienced driver to pick up but I’m concerned about the opposite. If a new driver is used to everything happening automatically, they won’t have good habits for driving more typical vehicles.
But there shouldn’t be outrage: I expected to use the same logic to make them learn on a manual transmission. However those were always rare in US, modern CVT, paddle annd other electronic automatics make them less useful, and of course EVs have no need for a transmission.
My friend from West Coast when visiting us rented a Tesla for a week at a huge premium specifically because "that's what I know how to drive now".
We're doomed.
It would be weird if Tesla pushed the envelope on non-standard controls so much that it became the new stick vs automatic. Kids will be like I can't drive your car because I don't know how to use a brake pedal (one pedal driving) or park without the overhead 360 radar thingy. I had a similar thought when I rode with a friend who was so distracted by his phone while driving that he relied on the front collision warning to tell him when to look up from his phone.
Make them wear a buttplug, they'll forget how to pucker