It doesn't. People saw the news of the HUD designer being hired by Tesla at around the same time the Model 3 was announced and jumped to conclusions.
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It's possible. But someone asked him "why did you choose that hideous steering wheel design" and he replied "that's not the real steering system". That seems to imply that the physical steering wheel will change in some manner, in addition to the semi-autonomous driving capability.
Wolverinegeoff
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Possibly one that you can retract into the dash (not automatically, as that would add unnecessary complexity)? This would be pretty space-shippy and fit well with the future autonomous capabilities. I think the HUD is dead, but I imagine they are putting those VR people to good use on displaying autopilot info from a variety of sensors and programming some great new software.
I suspect there will be no traditional mechanical steering column. It will probably be an electrical device with at least the minimum US 12 inch wheel diameter that can be installed on either side of the car. An autonomous car will need redundant steering so there will probably be two electric steering motors instead of present cars that may have one electric motor and mechanical steering backup. The foot pedals will also be plug-and-play on either side. The center panel remains the same. A simpler design.
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Someday I will probably eat these words, but what the heck is so freaking awesome about HUD? I have no desire for it.
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I understand the logic behind starting with a simpler car, but this not work for me. I was planning to get the highly optioned AWD to replace my model S. I was also hoping to see better quality materials, but it does not seem to go this way. I guess I will need to decide on a different replacement when the lease ends - bummer.
djdimsum
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I think the PX2 will not control the UI it has to use a separate soc for the UI, the PX2 is used for Autonomous CPU functions.
Not having to frequently change focal length while looking at dash. More importantly - not taking eyes off road to see what the car sees and plans to do next.
You expect higher quality materials than your S at half the price? Tell us more about your economic theories.
Of course this tweet storm was about protecting Model S/X sales. That much is obvious.
What triggered it, though?
If it was simply lagging Model S/X sales as everyone was waiting for that Ludicrous Model 3, maybe none of this had much to do with any HUD plans.
But if this was motivated by a production decision recently made for Model 3, i.e. what features to launch with and what not, I would say getting the HUD at launch on Model 3 became dramatically less likely. It was simply worded so strongly in Elon's dismissive responses.
Now it is possible Model S/X will still get it as an upgrade soon(er) but would Tesla want to give Model 3 buyers one more reason to wait? Maybe... if they are confident that will help more lucrative Model S/X sales.
If this was a cynical world play from Elon to sell Model S/X now and still launch a HUD for all of the models by Model 3 launch... well, that would be quite cynical indeed... but not impossible given Tesla's liberalism with the truth.
Whatever the case may be, as seen from the 60D firesale and pushes to convert Model 3 reservations to that, it is all about those Q2 sales for Tesla at the moment.
alseTrick
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alseTrick
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No it didn't. Everything from Tesla said that the exterior was near finalized but the interior was not.
It's back in the dashboard, so the angle isn't extreme. I'm not envisioning the screen placement on the Model 3 to be as comfortable for monitoring basic info. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I cringe every time I see an interior shot showing that lone display positioned distantly in front of the dashboard.
It is not an unreasonable line of thinking. Sure, it would be in an Audi, but Tesla is still a work in progress.
Every new version has the chance of being more than an incremental improvement over what Tesla has done in the past (although unfortunately it can also go the other way as Model X interior as well as the latest interior bundling also has shown).
There is reason to hope Tesla's interior materials and design improves in new versions, because currently it is lacking for its pricepoint, even for a half the pricepoint. Model 3 as a new design could have a more mature, improved design simply because Tesla is growing and learning.
It still may, if Tesla has gotten access to better designers, tools, suppliers etc. during the process. In the end, the cost is probably a very small and insignificant part of Tesla's interior design pros and cons. It is the other things that are driving it and thus expecting changes for the better is, well, not completely unreasonable.
Think about a full windshield augmented reality (AR) HUD. The car being able to paint any image over any part of the windshield.
The car sees a moose or a pedestrian in the dark, approaching the road... instead of just an audible warning or a blink of the dash, it could hightlight or lighten the actual moving, living thing up for you, right there on your windshield. (Current night vision implementations in e.g. Germans already do this on the dash screen superimposed over the night vision image. My A8 did it already in 2010.)
Of course eventually great autonomy could do away with many of these benefits, but even then the AR potential of notifications and whatnot on your screen would be interesting.
The real big deal about such a HUD would be creation of a brand new platform for software expression. We can only begin to think of the potential, but once the platform was available, software updates could bring all sorts of new ideas to the table.
I take that back a bit. For the Audi part.
Even in an Audi a new lower-end model can feel like an improvement over the preceding high-end model, for the period where the lower-end car is the newer generation and the high-end model is still at is previous generation.
There will be ways in which the Model 3 too will feel fresher than the now aging Model S/X interior. Tesla is probably wise to revamp the interiors of the latters sooner rather than later, both for quality and timeliness.
