Now, I agree the swipe cards (trip meter, tire pressures) was a poor interface but that could have been solved another way while retaining the concept of driver-selected data always being visible.
Absolutely. My first drive with V11 and an alert for tire pressure pops up while I'm driving. OK, swipe's gone. Hmm. Maybe the little alert is a button that will display the current tire pressure so I know if I need to stop immediately or top off next charging stop. Hmmm... nope, not a button. Finally found it after reading the release notes. And yes, it's buried, and not easy to get to while driving. So maybe swipe wasn't the best thing ever, but it made key data
readily accessible.
For those who say: read the release notes! What's wrong with you! Ha. I haven't read the release notes for iPhone's iOS in... forever? And didn't need to in order to accomplish the basics. This was also true for Tesla's releases until this one. I'm of the belief that the best
consumer-facing software shouldn't require much in the way of documentation. Now, if you're operating a nuclear-power plant...
TL/DR version of this post: I don't actually want my seat heater to go on unless I press the seat heater button. But where the heck did that button go?
My main beef with this is that it's not intuitive, overly intrusive/automated, and hyper-focused on entertainment. Seems they are getting ahead of themselves à la "these things'll be driving themselves practically tomorrow anyway". Whelp, for all those of us who didn't purchase the self-driving packages, that ain't gonna happen. Probably won't happen any time soon for those of you who did. I know, sucks. And even if Tesla nailed the software tomorrow, let's wait and see how long it takes the law to allow drivers to watch movies or play games while driving...
I do appreciate that they added the ability to customize the layout somewhat, but they didn't go far enough with this. Maybe that's in the works. That might go a long way to resolving my personal issues with it. Still, for the majority of people, I would imagine that they wouldn't customize that much anyway, so the default settings are kind of important.
As for trolls: sorry, kinda feels like you're trolling, OP. Sure, maybe there are a few people gleefully capitalizing on this perceived misstep and trying to talk down Tesla's market cap from nearly a trillion to... nearly a trillion? Or maybe they are oil and gas industry plants attacking a prominent EV producer's UI choices in the hopes of keeping the ICE good times rollin'. Yeah. Could be.
But lets be real: many on this forum have had Teslas for years. I'm all Tesla. Sold my last ICE last year, and that's that. Don't want to buy another ICE again, and with the supercharging network, would struggle to see myself buying a non-Tesla... even if I'm in the anti-v11 and yoke-hater camp! So to say people are unhappy with something that Tesla did = those people are trolls, is really, really non-insightful. But makes for good engagement!
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