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Cup holders (and cheese....)

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Is there such a thing as g-force neutral cup holders?

What? As in: "Switch all cup-holders to Neutral"?

Could be another button alongside "deploy whoopee cushion".

But I understand the thinking: A spilt cup is really annoying, but I don't know of anything cheap and simple apart from the usual compass gimble/ two-axis pendulum idea..
 
What? As in: "Switch all cup-holders to Neutral"?

Could be another button alongside "deploy whoopee cushion".

But I understand the thinking: A spilt cup is really annoying, but I don't know of anything cheap and simple apart from the usual compass gimble/ two-axis pendulum idea..

Something like this?

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Thanks. Hadn't seen that before.

I must have missed the answer to this next question:

Why are there three foot pedals in the Model S Betas? Is the clutch back in?
 
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Uhm, yeah, this isn't Star Trek; we don't have inertial dampers. The whole point is to keep the "gravity" vector vertical with respect to the cup.

Maybe a bit of friction to dampen the pendulum effect. These devices use the weight of the fluid, which means the COG needs to swing, which means it will then swing back and forth afterwards. If this were done with electric motors and a gravity/inertia detector, then the cup could just be turned around the COG, and it wouldn't need to swing. Or?