[resfirestar]

I don't expect most drivers will miss the seat controls. Tesla syncs your seat settings to your profile, so the main drivers never touch the controls, just the passenger. But that's easy for me to say when I already know what driving one is like, this is yet another thing that makes Teslas and EVs intimidating to someone driving one for the first time. Otherwise it doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice for $5k. I like the glass roof but not that much.

[supportengineer]

>> "intimidating"

Seat controls should be on the seat. That's just logical.

[tim333]

My merc puts them as physical buttons in the shape of a seat on the arm rest. Which works better than on the seat as you can see them and don't have to grope around to find them.

[iknowstuff]

What else? Should screen brightness of your phone have a physical slider somewhere by the display? Your computer fan speed?

Why would this one-and-done setting saved per driver profile and synced across yours teslas require physical controls? It’s a nice to have but clearly not a requirement.

[supportengineer]

You've probably had a "limited" amount of life experience, if you never move your driver's seat.

With touch screen controls, there's a lot of "friction" to adjust your seat, so you probably just "suffer" instead.

Can you see that if there was less "friction" to adjust your seat, you might do it more often?

[iknowstuff]

Sounds like u gotta go for the variant that has it while I couldn’t care less. In other words, good choice by Tesla

[mikestew]

this is yet another thing that makes Teslas and EVs intimidating to someone driving one for the first time

No, it’s just Teslas. Being an EV does not mean it has to have idiotic control schemes. The Ioniq 5 has sane seat controls, as one counter-example.