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> If you want to enable seat heating on the back seats? It’s about 3 clicks in which is bad. IIRC, you can use voice commands for that particular case. "Turn o

> If you want to enable seat heating on the back seats? It’s about 3 clicks in which is bad. IIRC, you can use voice commands for that particular case. "Turn on the right rear seat heater." There's definitely other use cases that still aren't covered by voice commands, at least the last time I tried. I can't exactly recall what those cases are, though. I should check the latest user manual, in case there's an exhaustive list of all supported voice commands...

ntsplnkv2 6y ago
Voice controls do a help a lot in many usecases, but are still slower than a physical button in many others.
- ogre_codes 6y ago
  Most of the time “Slow” isn’t the problem, the important/ urgent controls are on the stalk.
  - ntsplnkv2 6y ago
    Yea that's what I said - you need to have important/urgent controls physically on the stalk because it's faster than voice commands. What am I not getting? Slow is clearly the problem - that's why they're on the stalk.
ogre_codes 6y ago
I’ll have to try the voice controls more, that would be perfect. It’s not entirely intuitive to talk to your car, but maybe if I do it for a while it’ll work.
diggernet 6y ago
I'm sorry, but why doesn't the person in the right rear seat have a button to control their own seat heater, without interrupting whatever conversation is going on? Can they at least operate their own window still?
- kinghajj 6y ago
  As for "why," your guess is as good as mine. The entire design of the Model 3 eschews buttons in favor of the screen interface, so this likely is another example of that. In practice, I usually ask passengers before we start driving if they'd like their seat heated, if it's cold enough outside that it's a reasonable question to ask. Window controls do remain physical switches, in the standard configuration (e.g., the driver can control all four windows, and each passenger window has a nearby switch as well.)

ntsplnkv2 6y ago

Voice controls do a help a lot in many usecases, but are still slower than a physical button in many others.

ogre_codes 6y ago
Most of the time “Slow” isn’t the problem, the important/ urgent controls are on the stalk.
- ntsplnkv2 6y ago
  Yea that's what I said - you need to have important/urgent controls physically on the stalk because it's faster than voice commands. What am I not getting? Slow is clearly the problem - that's why they're on the stalk.

ogre_codes 6y ago

I’ll have to try the voice controls more, that would be perfect. It’s not entirely intuitive to talk to your car, but maybe if I do it for a while it’ll work.

diggernet 6y ago

I'm sorry, but why doesn't the person in the right rear seat have a button to control their own seat heater, without interrupting whatever conversation is going on? Can they at least operate their own window still?

kinghajj 6y ago
As for "why," your guess is as good as mine. The entire design of the Model 3 eschews buttons in favor of the screen interface, so this likely is another example of that. In practice, I usually ask passengers before we start driving if they'd like their seat heated, if it's cold enough outside that it's a reasonable question to ask. Window controls do remain physical switches, in the standard configuration (e.g., the driver can control all four windows, and each passenger window has a nearby switch as well.)