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My Model 3 has a turn signal stalk, unless you're talking about something other than the lever you tap up or down to turn on your signal.

e: So apparently that's been removed in newer models. What a stupid fucking decision.

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Lots of news articles about this - they dropped it from the latest iteration of the 3 a little while ago, after dropping it from the S and X a couple years ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2023/09/08/tesla...

Model S a couple years ago https://jalopnik.com/lets-bitch-about-teslas-removal-of-the-...

Model 3 recently https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2023/09/08/tesla...

That's right up there with changing the purpose of a column in a SQL table, after a certain date.

Yeah the model x has a different design too https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-1C20964...

I drove a Lamborghini Huracan a while back and whilst I loved the car, I absolutely hated that the turn signals were buttons on the steering wheel. It took me a while to even find them at first.

They're probably referring to this example in the first paragraph of TFA:

> "the replacement of turn signal stalks with steering wheel buttons on the facelifted Model 3"

I don't know which models or years they did it in, but they deleted the stalk on some cars, and moved the signals onto the touch area on the steering wheel.

They removed them on the Model S and replaced them with capacitive steering wheel buttons when they launched the steering yoke

It has been removed on the "refreshed" M3

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