Mercedes-Benz is ready to jump both feet into the yoke future and is taking a page out of the aviation industry’s playbook all in one motion.
On Thursday, Mercedes-Benz debuted what will be an optional steer-by-wire system that will be combined with a yoke when the refreshed EQS electric flagship hatchback arrives in the U.S. later this year. It’s futuristic, and in some ways improves upon systems, and yokes, that have come before it. Whether the EQS is the right place for this is another debate.
In March, in Faro, Portugal, at the Mercedes-Benz GLC electric launch the German automaker let me slide into the driver’s seat of a pre-production refreshed EQS, which was camo-clad on the exterior, to experience the new steer-by-wire system and yoke. …
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Author: Joel Feder
