Touch screens should be legally mandated to lock out when the vehicle is in motion for all vehicles driven on public roads, full stop. Anything you need to do while moving should be accessible via controls on the steering wheel or physical buttons and knobs on the dash/shifter that are easily located with a quick glance at most.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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I would actually would prefer to have to control all of the controls through Bixby actually
Like, "Bixby, slam on the brakes" and so on
"Bixby, accelerate to 100 km/h and execute a bootlegger turn."
I don’t want them in cars at all tbh, both cars I’m driving and ones I’m not. I want physical knobs and buttons that I can move without looking
The only thing touchscreens in cars are good for is options menus you aren't allowed to use while driving.
My car has a bunch of settings that you wouldn't be able to use without adding some kind of input device like a scroll wheel or touchscreen(or I suppose you could add 20 separate buttons).
Options like configuring how long the headlights stay on after you shut off the car, or configuring how the auto lock function works, changing the equalizer settings, etc. Touchscreen really is the best for this kind of stuff because it's what people are used to using.
You’re right, that stuff’s fine, although lots of those settings do exist in pre-touchscreen cars, and it’s just something like “press these buttons at the same time until you hear a click”
oh yeah i totally want my gear shift to be on a laggy tablet
The second one looks so much easier
At least make it some other tactile device. A rocker switch behind the steering wheel maybe? I could think of 100 better solutions than this.
It doesn't have gears so it only needs drive, park, reverse.
Tesla grifting is going to associate electric cars with cringe bazinga brains even more than prius was ever associated with out of touch liberals isn't it? 
Exactly. I don't really care what control I'm using so long as it's convenient, which a touch screen just isn't
Tbh, only teslas make me think "Oh great, a bazinga brain." Other electrics just make me think "I want to spend less on fuel and maintenance too"
I think the same guy was trying to make the same point about turning signal stalks, too, lol.
Can't wait for my car to get stuck at a parking lot cause the screen froze and I can't switch gears to reverse
fan that you continue to honor Order No. 227 to this day in your commute to the racism factory. Not a step back!Do Teslas come with manual transmissions? Or just automatic transmissions? Regardless, the bigger issue for me isn’t the doing it in traffic element, more, what happens if the touch screen has an error and isn’t recognizing my finger swipes? That’d be cute, not being able to turn my car off because I can’t get it into park/neutral.
Afaik they don’t even have gears, most electric cars don’t actually shift gears
Not that that makes touchscreens any less fucking stupid
And what if you accidentally spill something on it?
Is the car just gonna throw it self into reverse while doing 80 on the highway?
I've seen a video of an old VW Beetle that was converted to electric, it still had a stick shift but the guy just left it in like 3rd gear. Electric engines have instant torque, their power is readily available all the time so gears aren't necessary (i think that's how it works anyway)
Yeah that’s what I thought.
I can't think of a single action that is easier to do with a finger on a touch screen than a tactile, single-purpose control, even without having to pay attention to something else while you do it.
but technically you expend 0.5 more kcal moving the lever and only 0.1 kcal pressing the touch screen. this is more efficient and also the dead americans caused by this will reduce carbon output
At this point I really feel like they have to be trying to kill their own customers. It's like they're trying everything possible to get the driver to look away from the road. Next up on the chopping block is the front windshield
If their drivers are more dangerous than the self driving Teslas, it will make them look better by comparison!
I ran into the creator of my country's "Tesla owners" Facebook group. With 40 thousand members! I only talked to him briefly, but he told me that. Also that his Tesla is awesome. Didn't give his name.