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by jnsaff2 1193 days ago
I have driven a TM3 for a year now. For me it's way less annoying then sitting into a car with sea of buttons.

It has been one of those "it would seem annoying until you actually get to try it" experiences.
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hamandcheese 1193 days ago
The Tesla UI used to be amazing and had convinced me that touch UIs could compete with buttons in a car. So much was accessible with one tap.

But with each update, they UI gets objectively worse. They keep putting more and more things behind menus requiring multiple taps, making them incredibly annoying and dangerous to use while driving.

My biggest gripes:

- rear seat warmers require two nested menus to access. They aren't controllable from the main HVAC slide up, even though the seat diagram is still right there.

- mute/unmute turn-by-turn directions used to be a one click operation. Now it's hidden behind a hard-to-tap menu.

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rootusrootus 1193 days ago
The funny thing is that what makes the touchscreen in the model 3 tolerable is that there are just enough tactile controls on the steering wheels to do the most common things. Then the voice interface, limited though it is, can handle some things as long as you're patient.
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jnsaff2 1193 days ago
Yea. The important things physical:

- turn signals

- high/low beam (tho automation has gotten quite good)

- wipers (automation still not as good as the 2003 Saab I had)

- cruise control speed and distance

- PDR

- media volume, play/pause, previous/next

- voice control activation (voice control is pretty bad tho, even worse than siri I guess)

- window control for all windows

- hazards

- honk

Climate control is fine via screen, tho activating windshield max-defog could be valuable as a separate button (can be programmed as an always on shortcut tho).

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graeber_28927 1193 days ago
95% of the buttons I don't need to be haptic.

But please, let's have climate and volume as 2 physical dials. I promise, I'll be forever grateful, and I won't ever ask for anything more ever again. Just two dials.

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jnsaff2 1193 days ago
Volume is physical. On the steering wheel. Climate is always on the same spot and always visible, so has never been an issue.
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mh8h 1193 days ago
It works until you have to do something trivial like changing the windshield wiper mode, or enabling the seat warmer while driving.
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