I hope Elon Musk can take a lesson from Mercedes. Tesla went in the other direction: there are barely any physical buttons to remove, so they removed the stalks for signaling and even for changing gear! You have to use the touch screen to shift gears!

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CrimsonRain 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They have enough physical buttons.

Removing indicator stalks without steer by wire was a mistake. They fixed that by bringing back the stalks.

Touch screen for great shifting works better than you think. It actually works better than traditional gear shifters especially when you enable auto shift. It changes gears as needed. It's ok to want to stick to the past; but don't drag others back who want to move towards the future.

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fasteddie31003 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tesla does a great job not having buttons. I think the real issue is that other car companies have bad interfaces that make physical buttons necessary. Tesla just has a great UI that does not need physical buttons.

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tribaal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly - I own a Tesla and an id.buzz and it’s just insulting how bad the user experience is on the buzz.

I don’t need buttons for the rear view mirrors or lights, I need them to do the right thing for me instead. VW not saving the position of the rear view mirrors on my profile is stupid. Having a hardware button for the seat position “profile” is stupid. Having walk away lock locking and unlocking the bus in a loop in you stay within range with the fob is stupid. Having a fob is stupid.

Those are the software issues you need to fix VW, if you ever want my business again.

Edit: and since people seem to care about AC buttons: the id.buzz has AC buttons! But they are right under the infotainment screen… and capacitive :) the Tesla’s screen is much easier to manipulate.

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Synthetic7346 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I disagree, taking my eyes off the road to change climate controls is bad UI/UX

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eep_social 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“great UI” and “burned to death because the door handle wasn’t” is a bold juxtaposition

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grassfedgeek 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even a great UI requires you to take eyes off the road.

	▲	NetMageSCW 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Voice control exists.

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subscribed 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bonkers. How can anyone agree to drive such a distracting car is beyond me.

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moogly 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tesla is dead company walking.

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prymitive 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No alphabro wants to learn from anyone else, they already know everything