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> *They're loaded with useless/barely-functional interior electronics that are poor copies of Tesla Having owned both an EV Ford and a Tesla I can say with ab
by tw04 10mo ago
> *They're loaded with useless/barely-functional interior electronics that are poor copies of Tesla
Having owned both an EV Ford and a Tesla I can say with absolute certainty that the ford runs circles around the Tesla. Outside of having steam games on the screen, Tesla’s infotainment does literally nothing better, and the interface itself feels like an early 2000s Linux gui. Oh, and Ford actually supports carplay and android auto.
- Zambyte 10mo agoOutside of... having Steam games? What?
- dzhiurgis 10mo agoTesla's briefly had Steam
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- iknowstuff 10mo ago[flagged]
- Marsymars 10mo agoSo, I haven't driven a Ford EV for any significant amount of time so can't comment on the "navigating via chargers" part, but I'd take Ford's non-EV infotainment system over Tesla's system. Ford's is obnoxiously laggy, basically just above the bar of that I'd consider a shippable product, but Tesla's touchscreen for things that should be buttons is awful, and the lack of Android Auto/Carplay is crippling. And tangential to the infotainment system, Tesla dropping sat radio receivers is pretty annoying if you're frequently outside of cell service.
- iknowstuff 10mo agoNah everything you need is available on the steering wheel contextually. You would know that if you had one. You would also know why Tesla owners don’t care for android auto or carplay much (though I recognize that it’s definitely a selling point because people have this stance from their experience with other cars, which suck)
- Marsymars 10mo agoAh yes, no true Tesla owner. > Tesla owners don’t care for android auto or carplay much I suspect you're actually hitting a point, but it's not "people who buy Teslas realize that carplay doesn't matter", but rather "people who care about carplay don't buy Teslas".
- unethical_ban 10mo agoNew person to the conversation: I just want to say that even if the CEO's politics weren't awful I would never want a Tesla. I don't want a touchscreen to adjust the direction of the AC. Audio, climate and basic media functions should all have tactile control. Tesla is to blame for my parents thinking EV = complicated iPad on wheels. An electric drivetrain doesn't have to come with a touchscreen UI for everything.
- decimalenough 10mo agoVolume up/down (scroll), previous/next track (left/right), mute/play (press) are all on the steering wheel's left button. Not being able to adjust climate with a tactile control is mildly annoying, but the "temperature X degrees" voice control works fine.
- platevoltage 10mo agoYeah it's terrible, but it's way cheaper than engineering a bunch of buttons and switches, which is why Tesla did it. Somewhere along the line car makers decided non-mechanical door handles were a great idea too. Polestar is the only one that had some sense in that area.
- iknowstuff 10mo agoYou can change the temp and media etc on the steering wheel. Air is generally automatically adjusted
- tomhow 10mo agoPlease don't fulminate or sneer like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html