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Re:Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries by nordsieck on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:11AM (#21946493)
> Tactile controls are antithetical to updating the UX with software updates.

Tesla already has some tactile controls - they're on the steering wheel. I think people are just asking for more of them. If Tesla continued along in the same vein, a few more software defined controls wouldn't hurt UX updates at all - they would just give users more options for the UX functions they use most often.

> It doesn't appear either complaint is inhibiting sales.

People buy cars as entire units, they don't buy features piecemeal. I could just as easily claim Tesla is selling cars in spite of its dearth of tactile controls.

Re:Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries by toomuchtodo on Friday January 03, 2020 @11:37AM (#21947473)
This is the opposite direction Tesla is moving though. The last few updates have drastically improved voice commands (with some hiccups; an update or two actually made them worse). It is unlikely Tesla will increase the number of software defined physical controls in the vehicle, just my two cents.