It's not like Tesla doesn't have people who know a wiper stalk is good It's just their design goals are not "make the most convenient or practical control we c

It's not like Tesla doesn't have people who know a wiper stalk is good It's just their design goals are not "make the most convenient or practical control we can" They're "make it cheap to manufacture" "make it easy to manufacture" and "make it perpetuate the vague feeling of futurism we go for" The giant touch screen is at the intersection of all three. It's truly awful, but people convince themselves "this is the future!". And they say stuff like "I can't imagine going back to anything else" because by comparison the buttons feel dreary and old. Then to keep up other manufacturers start to follow suite and now even pickup trucks are bragging about having 12 inch touch screens in their advertisements and how the competing truck doesn't ...