I hope you enjoy the experience, in as much as you've made it clear how bad you expect using the touchscreen will be.
Thanks, I will enjoy the experience, i'm planning on renting a Model S for a few days to try the electric car experience, and we're hitting Vegas too.
With my expectations so low the real experience can only be an improvement right? Its in Tesla's ballpark to show me this fantastic polished and super easy to use UI. They've got 4 months for me, but as others have pointed out, they have mere weeks for early reservation holders in the USA.
Unfortunately I doubt i'll be able to wrangle an overnight test drive of a model 3 so I'll still have to speculate and read early buyers feedback on what it's like to live with at night, which is my other major concern. Having everything on a large glare factor LCD screen in your peripheral vision that you can't turn off because it is your only instrument panel could be a major PITA. If you spend your life in a big bright city this is something you may never notice, but if like me you spend time out of city when the sky is pitch black (moonless night in dark sky reserve) and the only light for miles is your headlights this is a major irritation.
I know you and others don't like me raising these concerns and think i'm bitching cos i'm short on TSLA or something (i'm not), but these aren't just resistance to change, these are based on real world experience with analogous technologies in my current car and other cars I have driven and the annoyance/discomfort I've experienced from them.
The current interior design, minus the entire steering column would probably be fantastic for a car that was entirely self-driving 100% of the time, but that car is still 2-10 years away at best, and is not the car they are selling today