[m463]

I think tesla is making its cars unsafe by removing critical controls and putting everything on the central touchscreen.

A better safer tesla would have dedicated controls you could access without removing your hands from the wheel and status you could read without looking away from the road.

Instead the turn signal stalks are gone, there is no gearshift lever, you have to read your speed and other status on the central touchscreen, and important features like defrost require looking away from the road and interacting with the touchscreen.

[paulryanrogers]

I had a pre-smart era Saturn with its driver displays in the center. It was so stupid. My guess is they thought it'd remove distractions from the road, or avoid the wheel being in the way? In practice it required a lot of glancing to the side.

Someone must have realized the error since they hedged their bets by angling the whole display console slightly toward the driver.

These screen only and offset displays are just begging to get people killed.