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b_b  ·  829 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars

I complain to my wife about it a lot, because she is a car designer. She does exteriors, not interiors, though. She just shrugs her shoulders and says, "If you hate it now, give it 5 more years." Supposedly the insider trend is that the entire dash will be a curved screen at some point in the self-driving future. Probably a good way for them to serve you ads while you're trying to get from point a to b.





mk  ·  829 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is hell.

I dislike our Tesla's screen. It is dumb. A big map is nice, but changing anything while driving feels like texting but less safe because I can hold my phone up.

katakowsj  ·  826 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep. having seen that monster interface on your dashboard, I'm surprised that we've not seen more headlines like " Tesla driver mows down Orlando family of 4 attempting to access his climate control. Says couldn't find fan speed adjust.

kleinbl00  ·  829 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's telling that BMW and Porsche are all about putting more information between your eyes and the road while Tesla has always been 100% about making you look away from where you're going.

mk  ·  829 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tesla also updates the UI so you need to relearn the steps and find things that were moved.

We had the screen go totally unresponsive, which required a reset. No radio, map, fan, etc. My wife waited a couple of days before I came home from a trip because she was worried the reset might fail and then she'd have no transportation.

kleinbl00  ·  829 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"We never seem to have the time or money to do it right, but we can always find the time or money to do it twice."

- unnamed Tesla engineer, as quoted by Ed Niedermeyer

b_b  ·  828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have it on good authority that they can't even get the windshield wiper working properly on the Cyber Truck.

kleinbl00  ·  828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm curious if your source thinks the Cybertruck will ever be built.

b_b  ·  828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He only said there's no chance that Tesla's public timelines are accurate.

katakowsj  ·  826 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey Tesla, The devil's in the details, right?

One can at least expect as the electric car segment has some reasonable competition, B.S. like this will vanish.

My iPhone has never done similar after an update. If it didiit did, I likely would not have an iPhone in my hand.