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I feel that pressing "park" should be idempotent. If I press "park" twice in my car, I don't want to drive away once I get out. Tesla really needs a dedicated "

by kylec 10y ago

I feel that pressing "park" should be idempotent. If I press "park" twice in my car, I don't want to drive away once I get out. Tesla really needs a dedicated "start autopilot" button to make the intention to use the feature explicit. Yes, apparently the fact that this feature was activated was messaged on the instrument cluster, but that shouldn't be sufficient to absolve Tesla from the liability of this poor UI decision.

FireBeyond 10y ago
Especially when considering, as mentioned upstream, Tesla's UI can have significant latency issues. "Several seconds" to display a confirmation (or actually a "Cancel") easily means the difference between a catching of your breath and several thousand dollars damage or worse.
mikeash 10y ago
If you feel that way, then don't turn this feature on. It's off by default. This guy turned it on, then screwed it up.
83457 10y ago
It does sound like there could be an improvement to the interface here but to be fair it is a parking mode and ran into a problem due to the specific environment it was started from. In a normal parking situation it would have understood its environment and not had an accident. There are many special cases that are being learned from every day by having some autonomous features in use by the general public.
wtbob 10y ago
> Yes, apparently the fact that this feature was activated was messaged on the instrument cluster, but that shouldn't be sufficient to absolve Tesla from the liability of this poor UI decision. We're talking about a company which has installed a flat glass control panel in their cars — they clearly don't care about UI/UX.