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by yzfr12006 2660 days ago
Well let me explain it to you then. The motivation of my rant is safety.

When you put a x amount of inches screen in the front of the vehicle right next to the driver, and making that screen to take input from the driver and display output for the driver, you are distracting him. When you are distracting a driver of a vehicle that leads to car accidents, car accidents kill other people and ruin lives.

If you are on a hype train and you don't take driving seriously if you want put in your car a 4k 65 inch Samsung TV to watch your favorite show, but I don't see a reason then why you should be on the road endangering other people lives.

I like Tesla as a company and I like Elon Musk I would love to have an electric vehicle one day, but that doesn't mean I should I agree with some engineer design decision to place a tablet in the middle of the car.

I don't believe that either the software nor the hardware is so advanced today that car manufactures can safely build big screens without distracting the driver attention, which should be on the road.

I also think that Tesla is leading that game for now which means that other car manufactures will follow...

The last thing we need is 20+ inches screens in vehicles while people are successfully being involved in car accident with their phones...

Nobody is taking away the accomplishments of Tesla, but then again I don't see why we shouldn't comment or criticize something when it is not right or could be better, simply because I want to see that future with amazing electric vehicles and I am just hoping for Tesla to consider other design options because they can solve the driving problem, rather that you ranting of my motivation to comment.

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Everyone wants safety. I’d urge you to drive a Tesla for a while and understand it before making erroneous assumptions about any problems you might imagine the screen might have. I suspect that small screens are a much bigger problem than well designed larger lagom-sized (just-right sized) screens.