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New person to the conversation: I just want to say that even if the CEO's politics weren't awful I would never want a Tesla. I don't want a touchscreen to adjust the direction of the AC. Audio, climate and basic media functions should all have tactile control.

Tesla is to blame for my parents thinking EV = complicated iPad on wheels. An electric drivetrain doesn't have to come with a touchscreen UI for everything.



Volume up/down (scroll), previous/next track (left/right), mute/play (press) are all on the steering wheel's left button.

Not being able to adjust climate with a tactile control is mildly annoying, but the "temperature X degrees" voice control works fine.


You can change the temp and media etc on the steering wheel. Air is generally automatically adjusted


Yeah it's terrible, but it's way cheaper than engineering a bunch of buttons and switches, which is why Tesla did it. Somewhere along the line car makers decided non-mechanical door handles were a great idea too. Polestar is the only one that had some sense in that area.




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