Re:New Wikipedia article about criticism of Tesla
by m463 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:56PM
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Tesla has the worst car, which also happens to be the best car. I have owned several EVs.
First, driving an electric car is wonderful. Smooth power, lots of torque, quiet, convenient. You can run the climate control while you're in the store. There is no smog checks, there are fewer parts, drastically less maintenance. When you smell coolant or oil, it's probably another car.
As far as Tesla EVs - they did a lot of things right.
Driving a few year old nissan leaf is like driving a car with a 1.5 or 2-gallon gas tank. Charging a leaf during a longer journey is a (giant) leap of faith.
Tesla made their batteries big enough and put chargers within the footprint of their cars.
I know, they didn't follow SAE for the charger, but really they've been innovating with this interface, at the forefront. That gives them agency that would be slowed down with a committee. (note that europe made them follow SAE standards)
But the Tesla is making some bonehead moves in ergonomics. Does anyone over at tesla drive? Yes, yes it will all be automatic some day, but their high-end models are from people who want the motor. Those people are into the driving experience.
There is no dashboard in the 3 or Y (or truck). You have to look to the side for status, and to adjust most functions. Status in the direction of view seems obvious to me.
They've also eliminated most stalks in the 3 and Y - for example overloading autopilot with the PRND stalk. The 3/Y scroll wheels are troublesome to use - s/x are much better. but they're bringing all that to the new s/x - and pulling all the stalks. ugh.
Right now you can't flash your lights or turn on defog without navigating the touchsceen. The automatic wipers suck and you can't adjust the intermittent delay even on the touchscreen. Touchscreen targets are very very small, especially in a moving car.
I've said it before, I think tesla should allow the option of a dashboard for the 3/Y/truck, and it should allow more direct controls for critical driving features.
aside: the USB player is the best. It can play apple lossless or flac. It is also the worst. thousands of posts on the USB player bug thread on TMC.
I also think they should take a year, yes a year, and fix existing functionality instead of adding new functionality (no matter how cool playing the witcher on the touchscreen would be).
Fix the wipers. Fix the USB player. add a dashboard. add controls. ask the customers.
First, driving an electric car is wonderful. Smooth power, lots of torque, quiet, convenient. You can run the climate control while you're in the store. There is no smog checks, there are fewer parts, drastically less maintenance. When you smell coolant or oil, it's probably another car.
As far as Tesla EVs - they did a lot of things right.
Driving a few year old nissan leaf is like driving a car with a 1.5 or 2-gallon gas tank. Charging a leaf during a longer journey is a (giant) leap of faith.
Tesla made their batteries big enough and put chargers within the footprint of their cars.
I know, they didn't follow SAE for the charger, but really they've been innovating with this interface, at the forefront. That gives them agency that would be slowed down with a committee. (note that europe made them follow SAE standards)
But the Tesla is making some bonehead moves in ergonomics. Does anyone over at tesla drive? Yes, yes it will all be automatic some day, but their high-end models are from people who want the motor. Those people are into the driving experience.
There is no dashboard in the 3 or Y (or truck). You have to look to the side for status, and to adjust most functions. Status in the direction of view seems obvious to me.
They've also eliminated most stalks in the 3 and Y - for example overloading autopilot with the PRND stalk. The 3/Y scroll wheels are troublesome to use - s/x are much better. but they're bringing all that to the new s/x - and pulling all the stalks. ugh.
Right now you can't flash your lights or turn on defog without navigating the touchsceen. The automatic wipers suck and you can't adjust the intermittent delay even on the touchscreen. Touchscreen targets are very very small, especially in a moving car.
I've said it before, I think tesla should allow the option of a dashboard for the 3/Y/truck, and it should allow more direct controls for critical driving features.
aside: the USB player is the best. It can play apple lossless or flac. It is also the worst. thousands of posts on the USB player bug thread on TMC.
I also think they should take a year, yes a year, and fix existing functionality instead of adding new functionality (no matter how cool playing the witcher on the touchscreen would be).
Fix the wipers. Fix the USB player. add a dashboard. add controls. ask the customers.