Tesla Touchscreen Controls

I suppose it’s personal preference but the touchscreen is probably the single biggest factor why I didn’t buy a Tesla recently. I think it will be great when self driving works, but for driving it’s hard to try to touch parts of a flat screen.Here’s an example of various controls I fiddle with while driving: temperature control through a little knob that sticks out; Heated seats through a button with sight curve around borders; Apple CarPlay through a knob.There’s also no heads up display

I don't know. I have driven all Teslas (except the Y) at length, and I think I prefer the simplicity of the 3 UI overall (wiper controls on cars need trial and error to figure out esp if you change the car you drive often). This seems to be a one-off distraction issue blamed on this particular setting, but I seriously doubt that's a significant concern beyond the general "some rarely used controls are on the touchscreen" distraction problem, especially since the car has a pre

Tesla is the worst. Their cars keep eliminating controls and putting everything on a VERY crowded touchscreen.Looks clean when you first look in the showroom!But drive it any length of time and it'll make you a worse driver, anxiously fiddling on a screen instead of driving.Honestly, can't they just add a "dashboard + stalks + buttons" option for $2k?

People with older teslas don't want to get the new ones.They did away with all the stalks. The car guesses which direction you want to drive. Turn signals are buttons on the (rotating) steering wheel (or yoke).The worst is that the touchscreen has very tiny targets. There's nowhere to rest your hands, you have to stab at them from the driver's seat (in a moving car) sigh.

Tesla replaced the tactile controls with a big touch screen. In my mind that is going backwards. The great thing about cars is the physical tactile controls that can be used without looking. Aftermarket stereos always have a worse interface than the OEM interface. Granted, I don't have a car with a touchscreen, but I would specifically look for a car with physical tactile controls if I was in the market. Disclaimer: not a Tesla fan at all.

No, in almost any discussion about Tesla cars, someone expresses that opinion. There are physical controls on the steering wheel though. You have for example 2 scroll-wheel buttons which can be used to adjust settings while driving without touchscreen interaction.

I think Teslas make you use the touchscreen for adjusting the cruise control speed

So three taps instead of one button. Exactly the problem with many other Tesla's controls, like defogging, for example. (At least they did have the sense to put control buttons on the steering wheel to which they have added some functionality.)Tesla does get a lot of little things right -- auto sensing for seat and steering wheel heating, auto-setting seats to your profile as you enter the car based on your phone, automatically setting/unsetting the emergency break when you park, au

I'm perfectly happy with the touch screen in my Tesla S 70D. It has rid the car of the ridiculous clutter of buttons, dials, knobs, and switches that seem to be just sprinkled all over most other cars.All the critical functions of the car are controlled by steering column stalks, steering wheel scroll buttons and the brake and accelerator pedals, and the critical visual feedback is in the dashboard.No ads have appeared so far.

Well after owning a Tesla Model 3 I am of the opinion, why in the hell do we need forty plus buttons in cars? Seriously! (Go count your buttons, some cars are higher than that)First off with regards to the touch screen in the Tesla. In the vast majority of drives I never ever touch it. Not once. Why not? Well I have my temperature preference set, I usually play the music that is coming off my phone, and well, what else do I need to adjust in my car? I can do music volume, do next or previous