AnxietyRanger
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I've been driving a Tesla close to three years now and I still hit Neutral accidentally on occasion. The problem is that in our ICEs that stalk is the wipers and I do drive other cars than just the Tesla. I've learned to recover fairly quickly from that, but there are moments when I can see it being dangerous or at least very embarrassing. I wonder if this would be fixable by addinga little more safety logic to the stalk (perhaps regarding speed or some such).
As for the cruise control, I made this point already back in 2015, it is unnecessarily complex to operate. Audi has it so perfectly nailed down: towards you to resume, away to cancel (and way away to disable entirely with a physical locking), up and down to change set speed, button to set a speed. It is so simple. After three years, frankly, I still do not know how that Tesla cruise control operates. Removing the on/off button too has been an improvement in later cruises because it was just confusing, but I wish they'd rather kept that as a set button, now there are three ways (up, down, towards yourself) just to set the cruise! It is not very logical... the Audi system I learned in a day, Tesla I'm still not confident with it.
That said, at least us with later cars (my 2014 Classic P85 was one of the first ones with the new stalk arrangement) have the cruise control below the blinker stalk, not above it. Also, Tesla got rid of the annoying light on the cruise control stalk (which did not even show that the cruise was active, it merely showed that the cruise was enabled and thus could be used). Things were even more confusing in the early cars in my opinion, though I of course understand some of this confusion is shared with Mercedes Benz.
As for the cruise control, I made this point already back in 2015, it is unnecessarily complex to operate. Audi has it so perfectly nailed down: towards you to resume, away to cancel (and way away to disable entirely with a physical locking), up and down to change set speed, button to set a speed. It is so simple. After three years, frankly, I still do not know how that Tesla cruise control operates. Removing the on/off button too has been an improvement in later cruises because it was just confusing, but I wish they'd rather kept that as a set button, now there are three ways (up, down, towards yourself) just to set the cruise! It is not very logical... the Audi system I learned in a day, Tesla I'm still not confident with it.
That said, at least us with later cars (my 2014 Classic P85 was one of the first ones with the new stalk arrangement) have the cruise control below the blinker stalk, not above it. Also, Tesla got rid of the annoying light on the cruise control stalk (which did not even show that the cruise was active, it merely showed that the cruise was enabled and thus could be used). Things were even more confusing in the early cars in my opinion, though I of course understand some of this confusion is shared with Mercedes Benz.
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