[throwayEngineer]

I find it fascinating to hear tech people hate on touch screens, when this is the best-in-class feature about Tesla. Can HN be consistent?

The reality is that people prefer more features than less, and buttons are not the best way.

What you probably hate are old, unresponsive automotive touch screens.

The future will use more microphones, be faster, use AI to predict what you want to do, etc....

But this seems like a "pop opinion", popular on the internet, but little basis in reality.

[yakshaving_jgt]

I'm a tech guy, and a car guy. I love cars. Keep the "features" the hell away from my cars. I don't want to sit about in a mobile cinema. I want a car I can drive.

The big touch-screen is a reason why I would not buy a Tesla. The reasons to buy one are economy and performance. Hell, the Prius might have actually been a decent car if it didn't look like a shoe, sound like an overburdened vacuum cleaner, and handle like a beluga whale.

[asdf21]

Lol, the Prius is an excellent car, and it doesn't look, sound nor handle as you describe.

[yakshaving_jgt]

You must never have driven any kind of decent car.

[asdf21]

TL, taurus, model s, mazda 3, p100d, sure bud.

[yakshaving_jgt]

Yeah I don't know. Rent a 911 for a day, and then sit in the Prius again.

[timc3]

No, i hate large modern touch screens in cars and prefer proper buttons, and controls that I can memorize, like the controller in my BMW. I can do most things with minimal eyes off road.

I would argue its not a best in class feature, its a liability.

[rsynnott]

I mean, Tesla's marketing department claims that the big touchscreen thing is a best in class feature. In reality, that's at best subjective.