NHTSA Complaint #11427096 — 2021 TESLA MODEL S

My car has a « yoke » steering wheel that feels unsafe and should be illegal along with the touch turn signals and horn. I almost crashed today when I had to swerve to avoid a mother crossing the road with her child. I tapped on the honk, but unfortunately, it’s not in the middle of the steering wheel as one one would expect, but it’s a small touch button right next to the cruise control touch button. each time i need to engage it, I have to take my arms off the road and find this button. It’s very distracting, especially in emergency situations. The turn signals are also « touch » only and there’s no way to really know if you have them or not. When turning in a roundabout, the yoke steering wheel is almost upside down and trying to signal is nearly impossible. I think the yoke steering wheel and touch buttons are marketing gimmicks used to get people to talk about Tesla at the expense of the safety of the owners and other innocent users of the road. This is extremely dangerous in my opinion and I’m now officially scared to be driving my car. Please make Tesla recall these cars and retrofit a normal steering wheel with a regular horn and stalks for the turn signals. Thank you for reading you are our only hope. See more feedback from Tesla owners here: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/model-s-plaid-delivery-and-first-impressions.235117/ Excuse typos I’m on mobile.