Tesla doesn’t have that excuse. The original Roadster, Model S and Model X all had fairly conventional controls. They deliberately undermined the safety of their vehicles by aggressively removing physical controls with the model 3 and Y. It probably saved them a few bucks, but at the cost increased risk to human life. If they get penalized in safety tests for their penny pinching then so be it.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 days ago
Before anyone forgets, this all started with Tesla. They lacked the skill, talent, know how, money and manufacturing capacity to make a decent center console. They then decided to move everything to the touchscreen because software is cheap to add to cars, thousands of small precision engineered objects are not. It was a margins game by the man “with the most knowledge on manufacturing in the world”. The rest of the industry followed because the bougie idiots made the band popular so the competitors just copied that absolutely regarded idea. Everyone calling this regarded was screamed into oblivion by tesla fanboys and design savants: “You’re just too dumb to understand minimalist design”. And here we are, turns out designing something that makes the driver take their eyes off the road on a 2000Kg murder machine is actually NOT good design.
arc@lemm.ee 2 days ago
OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Queue
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
regardedremoved, right?ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yes, and I know that because I too am highly regarded.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Also it accelerates the design-to-manufacture cycle of a new model - just slap a huge touch screen on it and start building the car, and hope the software is ready. If not, well, just ship it as is and patch it later.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Builds in a very expensive replacement component too.
A control button breaks? New button is a (still over-inflated) $75 to replace.
A Tesla control screen breaks (and they do, just as often as buttons) - $1500.
greencarfuture.com/…/tesla-screen-replacement-cos…