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I have taken to keeping the media tab in the top half vs the map for that reason. The menu bar stays up when you do that. It's annoying to have the map at the bottom though.
Ha! I just discovered this myself yesterday!
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I have taken to keeping the media tab in the top half vs the map for that reason. The menu bar stays up when you do that. It's annoying to have the map at the bottom though.
It appears Tesla doesn't take usability into account when designing or testing the user interface
THIS x1000000000000000It appears Tesla doesn't take usability into account when designing or testing the user interface.
It's pretty easy to design interfaces that look good AND are easy to use - minimizing the number of interface interactions for typical functions. Not only is this a convenience issue, since the interface is typically used by the driver (who is still required to be driving the car), the extra interactions increase driver distraction.
For example, we used to be able to switch media player sources from the steering wheel right scroll button - allowing the source to be changed without moving attention to the center console display. And the new source typically remembered the previous station/song from the last time it was selected.
Now...
Source selection requires using the console display:
Yes, the 8.0 user interface looks nice - they eliminated the clutter of items such as the XM radio station slider (which missed even more, because they also eliminated the clutter of the XM radio station list & categories).
- Touch somewhere on the display to bring up the hidden menu bar
- Quickly (before the menu bar is hidden again) find and press the media player icon
- Look at and then select the tab for the source on the media player
- Scroll through the list of favorites (which may require several screen interactions if the list is long) to find the station you want to listen to - on the band you wish to listen to OR if USB (since it completely forgets what song was playing), click on the display to bring up the categories list, click on the songs item, scroll through the list (multiple screen swipes) to find the song you were last listening to, and then click on that song to begin playing
But how can anyone believe this is more usable???
You think it's bad now? Just wait until the M3 drops and there's only ONE screen to put all this stuff on... LMAOAgreed. It's very obvious that the people who design the software don't actually drive the car as their primary vehicle.
Hopefully this will change with the Model 3 - but I'm afraid what is going to happen is that there will be huge priority given to the center display, and the driver display will become a secondary "also ran" display.
It is the lack of logic by which certain apps go to down or up windows,
I'm starting to wonder if the limited power of the MCU has a lot to do with the design choices they have made with the user interface.
That's what I would like though. A Tesla provided app for those streaming services. They provide Spotify outside of North America, so it's possible.So I doubt Tesla will ever allow an app store and apps to run on the cars that they haven't written (or thoroughly vetted) themselves, like the paint app.
Let's not jump to conclusions... If horizontal is the future, it's really just a UI change. We all are hoping the MCU for the 3 is much beefier then what is in the S/X. There might be possibility that the UI code is completely rewritten to run on the new hardware, learning from the codebase of the past. Perhaps a future S/X update (and perhaps the Y and new roadster) will also transition to a horizontal screen, unifying things on a more modern codebase that begins with the 3.Or, what is more likely, the developers are trying to retrofit the new screen configuration into the existing code, which can get pretty ugly and is time consuming, plus it creates an even larger burden for future maintenance and the addition of new functionality.
Larger frunk too, so that's at least threeI like ye ole' dash.
Granted, its a personal choice. Some like it, some don't. To me, it's the ONE GOOD THING that the classic cars have that the AP1 and AP2 cars don't have. Oh, and a couple cancelled colors (brown and green). So two good things. Or would that be counted as three?
The original large frunk was not exclusive to pre-AP cars. There was a short window of time in 2014 when you could have both.Larger frunk too, so that's at least three
If horizontal is the future, it's really just a UI change. We all are hoping the MCU for the 3 is much beefier then what is in the S/X. There might be possibility that the UI code is completely rewritten to run on the new hardware, learning from the codebase of the past. Perhaps a future S/X update (and perhaps the Y and new roadster) will also transition to a horizontal screen, unifying things on a more modern codebase that begins with the 3.