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It sounds like you haven't had experience with doing a soft reboot. And yet, apparently you have, from your parent of parent comment... bizarre. You make it s
by natch 7y ago
It sounds like you haven't had experience with doing a soft reboot.
And yet, apparently you have, from your parent of parent comment... bizarre.
You make it sound like some elaborate easter egg that's hard to remember and is only buried deep in the manual as a crazy special detailed long sequence of steps.
It's neither some very mysterious sequence, nor hard to memorize, nor hard to learn about. And you don't even need to know it.
As you well know it's just holding down two buttons which are right on the steering wheel basically where your thumbs are already resting as you drive. So why are you spreading FUD?
You don't even need to take your eyes off the road. Not even for one second. The buttons are right there where you can feel them.
And no, it's not something you could or would ever do accidentally unless you were trying odd stuff just to see what would happen. And if you did, it would be no big deal, and the car would continue driving just fine, and the UI would come back by itself after a few seconds. But again, this wouldn't happen.
>It's a very specific sequence detailed in the manual...
That is overly dramatic. Like, to the point where you should win an award. And the manual is not the only source for this "vErY sPeCiFiC sEqUEncE."
It's one step: hold the two buttons for a few seconds. As you said yourself.
In the unlikely even that A) a person driving the car doesn't know about this, B) they are running software that most cars don't have any more, C) they are using their web browser while driving, and D) they loaded a strange site that contained a hack, then they could just pull over and call for advice from service.
Service would tell them to press the buttons for a few seconds, and they could be on their way in under a minute including the time for the phone call.
- aaomidi 7y agoJesus Christ. This issue can come up on you while you're in the middle of the highway. If you don't have experience with it before it's extremely scary. You don't know if your blinkers are working (they are), but you have no idea. You don't know if your braking lights are working. You don't know what speed you're going. One slight criticism and you send me an essay about spreading FUD.
- natch 7y agoWell the scary for a newbie part I can agree with! So that one slight criticism didn’t lead to that essay. It’s was the other stuff: “very specific sequence detailed in the manual” which got me, because the wording is so amped up and over dramatized. I mean I almost mentioned “JFC” myself before you did, but explained it instead. You can’t please everyone though. I think it’s interesting how Tesla has addressed all the different UX challenges of the car. Fascinating really. I know UX people and they have my utmost respect because they often solve problems like this one in such effective ways.