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01-06-2020, 09:17 PM | #12 |
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Everything about it seemed weird. All I could hear was him tapping away at the screen and reading dialogue boxes and tapping to select/accept, etc. Looked cool as hell but unlike iDrive where you can get close to a selection, get your eyes back on the road, and glance once more for the final selection, the big screen doesn’t allow that. Your finger is floating in the middle of a huge screen and to look away essentially means starting over which clearly forced him to want to finish the selection. I feel that way about the touch screen on the M3 even though it’s about 1/8 the size. That’s why I almost exclusively use the iDrive knob.
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01-07-2020, 10:15 AM | #13 |
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He sounds like a tool. You can drive the car without navigating menus. If he wants to dick around on the screen, or use a cell phone while driving, that's on him.
I guess people will see the big screen and claim the design encourages it. But is this really Tesla specific? My Colorado also has a fairly elaborate infotainment that allows navigating all sorts of menus and apps (weather apps, etc) while driving if I wanted to. The screen is smaller but this doesn't make it safer. If anything it might be the opposite. Both vehicles (and even waze in Android auto) disable some functionality when the vehicle is not in park. How much policing do we want down this line, vs personal responsibility? I'm not sure how to best draw this line. Hell, we could make cell phones not work when they're moving more than 10 mph if we wanted to police this aggressively. On waze on Android auto, you cannot access the keyboard to type a name of a place you want to go unless the vehicle is in park. If you're driving and your passenger wants to type "Lowes", you have to pull off the highway and put the car in park. Or alternatively you can unplug your phone, the music stops, you let it disconnect and shut down all the apps, then you start waze on the phone, search for Lowes, then reconnect the phone and fire up waze again on the car. It is a miserable and maddening experience. I cannot see this being the type of solution we decide to go to solve distracted driving. |
01-07-2020, 10:48 AM | #14 | |
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Until then, if my butt is cold and I need seat warmers or any other function for which there has been a traditional button, I could probably hit it without looking or a short glance may be all I need to know where it is or to confirm I hit the right button. A screen that dynamic and with no tactile feedback is a poor design if that is the only way to control functions given the inevitability of their use while driving. It is slick and very cheap to implement, but not better than real buttons for commonly used functions. Frankly, iDrive bothers me in that I don't have enough/more discrete buttons between functions, but at least they throw you a bone and give you several shortcut and programmable buttons. I agree that manufacturers are all going there, but that doesn't make it good. |
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Both accidents paid for by the other insurance carriers being it was their fault and both drivers were on their phones. I think phones should be inoperable while in a car unless controlled by car play/android play/blue tooth. One problem is these systems work ‘ok’ but still have glitches... Last edited by Alan; 01-08-2020 at 09:57 AM. |
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