• Touch screens should be legally mandated to lock out when the vehicle is in motion for all vehicles driven on public roads, full stop. Anything you need to do while moving should be accessible via controls on the steering wheel or physical buttons and knobs on the dash/shifter that are easily located with a quick glance at most.

      • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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        The only thing touchscreens in cars are good for is options menus you aren’t allowed to use while driving.

        My car has a bunch of settings that you wouldn’t be able to use without adding some kind of input device like a scroll wheel or touchscreen(or I suppose you could add 20 separate buttons).

        Options like configuring how long the headlights stay on after you shut off the car, or configuring how the auto lock function works, changing the equalizer settings, etc. Touchscreen really is the best for this kind of stuff because it’s what people are used to using.

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      At least make it some other tactile device. A rocker switch behind the steering wheel maybe? I could think of 100 better solutions than this.

      It doesn’t have gears so it only needs drive, park, reverse.

      Tesla grifting is going to associate electric cars with cringe bazinga brains even more than prius was ever associated with out of touch liberals isn’t it? yea

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        Exactly. I don’t really care what control I’m using so long as it’s convenient, which a touch screen just isn’t

        Tbh, only teslas make me think “Oh great, a bazinga brain.” Other electrics just make me think “I want to spend less on fuel and maintenance too”

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    Do Teslas come with manual transmissions? Or just automatic transmissions? Regardless, the bigger issue for me isn’t the doing it in traffic element, more, what happens if the touch screen has an error and isn’t recognizing my finger swipes? That’d be cute, not being able to turn my car off because I can’t get it into park/neutral.

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    I can’t think of a single action that is easier to do with a finger on a touch screen than a tactile, single-purpose control, even without having to pay attention to something else while you do it.

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      It’s more futuristic in an aging stale Steve Jobsian way. It doesn’t have to be better, just feel more futuristic to the rubes.

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    At this point I really feel like they have to be trying to kill their own customers. It’s like they’re trying everything possible to get the driver to look away from the road. Next up on the chopping block is the front windshield

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    I ran into the creator of my country’s “Tesla owners” Facebook group. With 40 thousand members! I only talked to him briefly, but he told me that. Also that his Tesla is awesome. Didn’t give his name.