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Having a 15 inch touch screen set off to the right as your main user interface in a _car_ is insane. This is taking the stupidity of touch-only volume controls
by rsanheim 9y ago
Having a 15 inch touch screen set off to the right as your main user interface in a _car_ is insane. This is taking the stupidity of touch-only volume controls to the next level.
I don't care how good the autopilot is, if I can't control everything essential via tactile based controls while keeping my eyes on the road, your design has failed.
- dreamcompiler 9y agoI agree, but Tesla seems to have sweated the human factors way more than any other car company. When I test-drove a Model S, I expected the screen to suck. But I didn't hate it. Somehow it just works. It's difficult to explain.
- pvinis 9y agoWhen I test-drove the Model S, the screen felt like I had to use a 3 year old Android tablet to do things like volume change or AC. I didn't like it. It felt slow to me. I don't mind the non-tactile-ness of it, it just felt old and slow. Definitely not what I was expecting.
- cynix 9y agoThat's because you should be using the physical scroll wheels on the steering wheel for tasks that you're likely to perform while driving, such as changing music volume or AC temperature, but you probably didn't get the chance to program them to your liking during a short test drive.
- pvinis 9y agoThat makes sense. I'm sure it gets better with some personalization, but still, let's say the navigation felt like an old version of Google Earth running on an old tablet. Very cool and definitely very pretty though.