[m463]

When the model S was created, they had a better design - open the handle a bit, and you get an electronic release. keep pulling it further and it will mechanically open the door.

Since then, tesla has been relentlessly cost reducing everything. First it was no dashboard on the model 3, and on and on into dangerous design.

Latest 3 has no turn signal stalks. No drive select stalk (it guesses). and lots of critical controls are not physical at all and are hidden in touchscreen menus.

[Zigurd]

It seems as if some design decisions were made with the idea that FSD would actually work "by the end of the year." If manual driving becomes the exceptional case, why not minimize the controls?