[ps]

Model S owner here and as many others in this thread noted - it is not any more dangerous than knobs. I also heard opinion that UX is much worse than with physical controls. Indeed if you design the UI poorly, but this is not the Tesla's case. And I would yet have to see any physical UI that can be improved during the car's lifetime.

[Angostura]

So you can reach out, without taking your eyes off the road, unerring find the control and adjust it? Because that is what I can do with a conventional switch or knob.

I have Carplay in my car - which I like a lot - however I'm under no illusion that using it while driving, is much much worse in terms of the amount of time it takes my attention from the road, than a similar physical control.

[ps]

Lets take the temperature control for example. I am not able to adjust it with the touch controls without looking (or it is too difficult), however I am not able to adjust it with knobs as well, because sometimes the feedback is either missing or there is a bug in controller or whatever and my temperature is changed one step more than I wanted. Am I being more confident with knobs? Yes. Do I still have to check the result? Definitely. Do I spend less time checking the knob related 8-segment/LCD panel vs Tesla UI? Not sure, probably not.

Btw I have to take my eyes off the road when I check the speed and the mirrors and that is something I do quite often and considering the behavior on the roads more drivers should.

[natch]

There are buttons for most common operations so yes.

There are also voice commands so yes.

In the case of climate control you can use muscle memory if you really want to, to hit a button always ready in the same place on the edge of the screen, and then use the hardware buttons from there, so yes. Personally I would glance at the bottom edge of the screen (center) while approaching the button with my finger, but you don’t have to do this, and you can easily do it with a flick of they eye while traffic is in a calm pattern, at a moment of your choosing. It’s not like your eyes need to wildly search the screen for the button... it’s right there in a known fixed place.

People have such far out misconceptions about Tesla cars. It’s bizarre.

[akvadrako]

I haven't driven a car with only touch controls, but I bet you would say the same thing about phones. And I have used phones with touchscreens, so I know they are worse than physical controls.