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Teslas don't have physical blinker switches?? That is pure lunacy, are you telling me they're touchscreen activated now?
by sensanaty 3y ago
Teslas don't have physical blinker switches?? That is pure lunacy, are you telling me they're touchscreen activated now?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThey are touch areas on the steering wheel. It's not on the screen, but they're not buttons. They don't click.
- mgoetzke 3y agoThey do in the new models like the 3 refresh
- OvbiousError 3y agoFrom the article: > Tesla is probably at greatest risk here, having recently ditched physical stalks that instead move the turn signal functions to haptic buttons on the steering wheel.
- sensanaty 3y agoThat's legitimately insane to me. Plus you don't even get that satisfying clunk of turning the blinkers on. God the future is turning out so lame...
- yurishimo 3y agoSome parts of the future are always lame! But luckily, they can get better if at least one person cares enough to make facilitate the change :)
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- nottorp 3y agoThe main problem is you have no tactile confirmation of the blinker status. They may have left some blinking icon on on the screen, but you're watching the road and don't see it. They may have left that confirmation 'click' sound on, but you can't hear it because you can't adjust the music volume :)
- mgoetzke 3y agothose 'haptic' buttons are real buttons. with a click feel and everything. they are great (tested in highland model 3)
- close04 3y agoWhat people call "real buttons" usually require a certain force and travel to activate. Capacitive buttons require little to no force or feedback, sometimes not even solid contact. I think the easiest way to understand the difference is to ask 2 questions: "can I put my finger on that button and not immediately trigger it" and "can I can physically tell that I am triggering it (ideally some physical travel)?" If the answers are "yes", then it's probably the kind of button people look for when talking about wanting "real buttons".
- yreg 3y agoIt depends. The solid state button under the MacBook trackpad is indistinguishable from the previous physical button.
- close04 3y agoI wrote more in the comment above but just to add that the old trackpad is not the best point reference. This is just Apple chasing thinness by making any button barely have any travel. Signal or wiper stalks have 2 orders of magnitude more travel.
- mythhabit 3y agoApple has actually combined the two with their touchpads. When you press on them you get the "click" feedback. But its not actually a physical travel that activates, it's what they call "the haptic engine" that vibrates in a way that makes it feel like you've clicked a physical button. It works really well. However, I think that such buttons are far more expensive than a physically activated button, even if the latter is engineered to last a lifetime of heavy use.
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- lm2s 3y agoOn recent models they removed the stalks and put blinker buttons in the steering wheel.
- Yizahi 3y agoTesla planned that everything in the car would be automated, including driving. In such case people don't need a thought out UI and responsive controls and all that can be cut down to either save money or to focus on media entertainment for the passengers. That's why they replaced steering wheel with a yoke, buttons with screens etc. Unfortunately they forgot that car need to be fully automated first, and then redesigned later. Not the other way around.
- ainiriand 3y agoIt is even worse, because the buttons are placed on top of the steering wheel so when you turn they also turn in place and it is confusing.