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> best car UI I've ever used. I'll reluctantly agree with this notion, but will say that being the best car UI is hardly difficult to achieve. > There's zero

> best car UI I've ever used. I'll reluctantly agree with this notion, but will say that being the best car UI is hardly difficult to achieve. > There's zero guessing. What? Do you use the UI every day? I do, and I'm constantly guessing where the latest UI update moved things to. I suspect my Model 3 doesn't have "touch zones" on the steering wheel either, since if it I did, I'd certainly be touching them unintentionally. Or maybe my Model 3 does have them, and I just haven't found the UI control/setting to know if I do or not. The configurable steering wheel button is a huge win in terms of usability, and it's also relatively new to the Model 3. > you're mostly meant to use voice and put everything in auto. Some of us don't have voices. Being able to speak out loud should not be a requirement for driving a vehicle. Regarding everything being in auto: when everything is in auto, sometimes the car wants to automatically slam on the brakes or swerve into oncoming traffic or stopped police cars. You may be comfortable with that risk. I am not. I have also never stared at my speedometer, but that's usually because on most cars it's easy to just glance down and see a speedometer. On the Model 3, you have to: remember where the speedometer is now (since UI updates have moved it - it's had 4 different locations since I've owned my Tesla). Once you do find it, you have to ignore all the other UI baubles crowding around it. There are dancing grey 3D models of nearby vehicles, notifications, yellow icons, if your blinker is on, and you found the setting to enable it, sometimes a side camera overlay alternating between something you can see and full yellow/white from brightness of the blinker over exposing the shot, green icons, models of nearby vehicles that are swapping out between a truck shape, a sideways car shape, cones, then back into the sedan model (even though the vehicle it's rendering is actually a tiny old pick up trick). It UI may be the "best car UI" you've ever used, but that doesn't mean touch-screen-only controls in a vehicle are even remotely a good idea.

valval 3y ago
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- buffington 3y ago
  I'm in no position to say how you should find joy in life, but your 0.002% number is so grossly inaccurate that it borders on insulting. I'll assume you're being ignorant rather than being an ableist. Maybe you're trying to make a point too, but people who call others out for "grasping at straws" don't make mistakes like that. Thing is, the number of adult Americans who cannot use their voice to control a Tesla is about 17.5 million. What you categorize as "grasping at straws" is me responding to a post where someone asserted that "you're mostly meant to use voice and put everything on auto" to operate your car. Remarking that not everyone can do that isn't grasping at straws, it's just a fact. Even if we used your 0.002% number, that's easily 600k people who cannot operate a Tesla using only their voice. Voice control is not a solution to poor controls. Weird, too, that of all the things I said, that's what you decide to reply about. The one, actually non-subjective reason why "using your voice" isn't the solution, is the one thing you consider to be a stretch.

valval 3y ago

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buffington 3y ago
I'm in no position to say how you should find joy in life, but your 0.002% number is so grossly inaccurate that it borders on insulting. I'll assume you're being ignorant rather than being an ableist. Maybe you're trying to make a point too, but people who call others out for "grasping at straws" don't make mistakes like that. Thing is, the number of adult Americans who cannot use their voice to control a Tesla is about 17.5 million. What you categorize as "grasping at straws" is me responding to a post where someone asserted that "you're mostly meant to use voice and put everything on auto" to operate your car. Remarking that not everyone can do that isn't grasping at straws, it's just a fact. Even if we used your 0.002% number, that's easily 600k people who cannot operate a Tesla using only their voice. Voice control is not a solution to poor controls. Weird, too, that of all the things I said, that's what you decide to reply about. The one, actually non-subjective reason why "using your voice" isn't the solution, is the one thing you consider to be a stretch.