Tesla’s Cybercab isn’t scheduled to go into production until 2026, but when it does, it may end up stuck with a vestige of the automotive past: a steering wheel.

To be sure, we still use steering wheels. But the Tesla Cybercab was meant to be the first vehicle of the new future, and there’s nothing futuristic about steering wheels.

Robyn Denholm, chair of Tesla’s board of directors, let slip in an interview with Bloomberg that the autonomous vehicle may need to include one of those round, spinny things us lowly humans use to navigate through our course, analog environment. That’s because steering wheels are kind of a big deal with regulators; they like cars to have them. If you want to sell a car without one, you need to apply for an exemption from current federal safety rules. And that

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