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Tesla is showing what a car can be - Excellent UX, a nontraditional but really nice drivetrain, a good UI for the secondary systems with frequent software upgr
by kpil 11y ago
Tesla is showing what a car can be - Excellent UX, a nontraditional but really nice drivetrain, a good UI for the secondary systems with frequent software upgrades, etc.
It's not hard to see the trend - it's been coming for the last 15 years at least. All drivetrains will be electric, and connected to a battery and optionally a range extender of some sort. The control panel will be all big screens and apps.
Meanwhile, the existing manufacturer are perfecting the ultimate gearbox. They are in at least partial denial now, but they will soon need to dismantle those investments and some others to stay alive. Ex, Audi that has kept a really complicated gearbox instead of doing what Mitsubishi did, using a fixed gear system and a serial hybrid approach.
(To be fair, they have nothing to gain from these changes, they just want to stay slightly better than the rest.)
The bet against them is that some of them will not be able to reinvent themselves and then wither out into obsolescence.
I think that this risk might not be fully included in the price right now.
- avn2109 11y ago>> "The control panel will be all big screens and apps." Noooo - tactile feedback is so important in vehicle subsystem control! [0] Please do not take away my knobs and dials. [0] http://www.ecnmag.com/article/2014/01/keeping-feel-automotive-touch-controls http://www.ecnmag.com/article/2014/01/keeping-feel-automotiv...
- oldmanjay 11y agoNot to ruin your day, but they're taking away your knobs, dials, and control of the vehicle.
- avn2109 11y agoHonestly I might not mind being unable to control the vehicle as long as I could adjust the temperature with a hardware control.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI think the endgame of a car is an artificial womb - moving you around, self-adjusting for maximum personal comfort - but with you being the one that tells it where to go.
- saiya-jin 11y agoThis is actually ruining my day and night, idiotic move to impress... who actually? Soccer mums? Drivers need to focus on the road constantly, if i look away, there can be atomic blast right ahead of me and I will not notice it properly. Even a glance for 1-2s can have grave consequences in heavy traffic. Knobs are excellent thing. Touch screen is good only for passengers. In my knob-full car i can adjust most things without a glance away from road. Good luck hunting some effin' ipad screen
- kpil 11y agoI agree. But a big oled screen for a map, settings, and secondary systems can never be wrong can it.
- copperx 11y agoIt reminds me of the transition from analog recording to digital recording. The finest analog recording technologies were developed just before the switch.
- kbutler 11y agoThat's probably mostly because we stopped trying to invent finer analog technologies once we got digital.