And if you don’t pay your monthly fee, the car will just ignore those buttons.
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Hotdogman@lemmy.world 8 months agoPhysical buttons will now be a paid option on vehicles…
Petter1@lemm.ee 8 months ago
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Available via OTA software update….
helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Premium physical buttons only available on budget models (like headphone jacks on smartphones)
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When they should have been mandated long ago for safety reasons.
r00ty@kbin.life 8 months ago
This was my first thought. I've never even been in a Tesla, so I didn't know they didn't have the basic functions on buttons. In terms of safety, having a specific button in a known location that does a specific thing is extremely important.
How does it work on a Tesla, voice control? That might be good. If you have to scroll through menus on a tablet to turn the A/C up or down, that's a severe safety issue (and likely illegal in many countries to do while the equivalent of the ignition is on).
ironhydroxide@partizle.com 8 months ago
“hey Tesla, turn on the defroster”
—“ok, indicating right”
“No! I need defrost!”
—“I didn’t get that, say again”
“Turn on the windshield defrost”
—“ok, wipers on high”
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 8 months ago
You’ve used Tesla voice control I see… :p
r00ty@kbin.life 8 months ago
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lots of cars today have this touchscreen nonsense for controlling everything.
By 2016, even Honda/Acura started using it on higher end models. Which is funny, because my early 2000’s Honda has nice, big, obvious, easy-to-use-without-looking AC controls.
r00ty@kbin.life 8 months ago
Yeah, I was just looking at the modern version of my current car. Seems like it does still have 1 row of buttons. But most stuff seems to be on a teslaesque tablet.
My current model (from 2014) l has a lot of stuff you can do in the menu system, but anything you need to do while driving has controls on either the stalk or dashboard.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Think about moving your phone out of reach and then using an app to control your car. It’s about like that. Only it’s mounted to the car so you’re both bouncing around out of rhythm.
Voice control works for most things but you can’t even turn on the headlights, and it doesn’t work at all without cell reception. Like we haven’t had fantastic offline speech recognition for a dozen years?
They recently added some contextual controls to the steering wheel buttons but literally the only ones I wanted (headlights and wiper speed) were not included.
They only just recently added the function to automatically turn on the headlights when the wipers come on.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If Tesla doesn’t have voice control, they’re behind my 2016 Prius, which has it. You have to push a steering wheel button to access it. Of course, no-button Teslas could do an ‘Ok Google’ or ‘Hey Siri’ or whatever.