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I would think it's just a marketing ploy:
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If you had followed along, you'd know ditching the wheel was an important architectural milestone.
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All of Arcimoto's prototypes had a steering wheel. Ditching it would let him put the passengers more upright, shorten the chassis, and cut 600 pounds from the weight.
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Early prototypes were nose heavy.
I'm not paying $20k any time soon. Electric bicycles top out at $10k And the (MLM) Cybertrike is projected at $3K but it's currently on hold.
Last I heard the Certified Used FUV program had three examples at $9-12K. I'm leaning toward one of those.
I watched again up until
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3:29 ...One of the things that we did recently was the program to go ahead and make
3:36 modifications to the steering system. I think the thing that really impressed us about the modular
3:40 design of the vehicle is everything we needed to touch for a drive-by-wire system that could
3:45 be done safely and to make sure it was highly redundant is basically encapsulated in the front
3:51 clip. We've even made steering modifications together over the last several months that we
3:55 know we can take to production and give us more reliability for high-speed driverless operations.
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There appears to be no change in steering ratio (I single-stepped through the frames) so it would be 1/2 turn lock-to-lock. I'll ask my sources.