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I noticed some Tesla staff bending their finger and using their knuckle on the touch screen instead of a fingertip.
I gather that was being done to avoid fingerprints on the screen...
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Sorry, added link to post above: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/7408464122/in/set-72157594207153221/
His comment from a blog post below that last link:
Jurvetson: 'Quite a few people and focus groups and such, and like Apple, sometimes you go with a hunch. Also like Apple, the hardware is a minimalist vessel for code. So it's easily upgradable and ties to web services.
I have not found the screen distracting. While parked, some of the information features are interesting. While driving, I use the big screen for a map and the dash screens for music and energy/regeneration monitoring (out of curiosity). The driver configures what goes where, and can have the dash areas go unused if so desired. Having had maps of various sizes in various cars, I think it's safer to have it large and easy to see at a glance. As for the A/C and music controls, the touch screen is not much different than a dedicated set of dials, with the exception of tactile feedback if you are feeling for a knob without looking. Many cars have done away with the center console button profusion (I remember some older cars with an impossibly complex rows of buttons for everything, including all radio presets). The common fixed function knobs, like volume control, are on the steering wheel, or in the case of driving functionality, in the usual places on the paddles around the steering column.
They can upgrade the UI over the air, and offer new features to the installed base over time.
A future UI feature I'df like to see is a "Make it Hot" button. This is for some ladies I know who insist on overriding every automatic AC feature until they get warm. So the button would pump max heat and seat heaters until it was unset, and then all would resort to auto. This would save a ton of button presses for our family use case. =)
By the way, I think the seat heaters are something out of this world. I don't think this amount of heat is possible in a gas-burning car (those cars can pump waste heat through the vents, but the car seat heaters run off the little 12V lead acid battery). With many kW of electrical power at the Tesla's disposal, they can really pump the heat.'
sounds good to me!
Jurvetson: 'Quite a few people and focus groups and such, and like Apple, sometimes you go with a hunch. Also like Apple, the hardware is a minimalist vessel for code. So it's easily upgradable and ties to web services.
I have not found the screen distracting. While parked, some of the information features are interesting. While driving, I use the big screen for a map and the dash screens for music and energy/regeneration monitoring (out of curiosity). The driver configures what goes where, and can have the dash areas go unused if so desired. Having had maps of various sizes in various cars, I think it's safer to have it large and easy to see at a glance. As for the A/C and music controls, the touch screen is not much different than a dedicated set of dials, with the exception of tactile feedback if you are feeling for a knob without looking. Many cars have done away with the center console button profusion (I remember some older cars with an impossibly complex rows of buttons for everything, including all radio presets). The common fixed function knobs, like volume control, are on the steering wheel, or in the case of driving functionality, in the usual places on the paddles around the steering column.
They can upgrade the UI over the air, and offer new features to the installed base over time.
A future UI feature I'df like to see is a "Make it Hot" button. This is for some ladies I know who insist on overriding every automatic AC feature until they get warm. So the button would pump max heat and seat heaters until it was unset, and then all would resort to auto. This would save a ton of button presses for our family use case. =)
By the way, I think the seat heaters are something out of this world. I don't think this amount of heat is possible in a gas-burning car (those cars can pump waste heat through the vents, but the car seat heaters run off the little 12V lead acid battery). With many kW of electrical power at the Tesla's disposal, they can really pump the heat.'
sounds good to me!
Perhaps for another thread, but I still maintain that for local MP3s this shouldn't be needed. Hopefully the fetching only happens if you don't have artwork embedded in your MP3 file.
> Jurvetson on his touchscreen
Am I allowed to dream of a 17in screen for my Roadster dash? With customizable displays like 8in high speedo, and 6in high duelling 'range estimators' below.
Oh yes, also a 4in high altimeter readout. That's all I really really want. 8^))
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Am I allowed to dream of a 17in screen for my Roadster dash? With customizable displays like 8in high speedo, and 6in high duelling 'range estimators' below.
Oh yes, also a 4in high altimeter readout. That's all I really really want. 8^))
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Well, not ideal, but its something to be expected with touchscreen instead of actual buttons. They considered haptic feedback (I read somewhere), but decided it wasn't useful.
But to be able to have large screen of the browser and map at the same time, it seems like its worth it to me.
gg_got_a_tesla
Model S: VIN 65513, Model 3: VIN 1913
A little bit of Jurvetson and Vin #1 in an otherwise lukewarm piece on EVs:
Electric vehicles: Why they're stuck in the slow lane (video) - CNET News
Electric vehicles: Why they're stuck in the slow lane (video) - CNET News
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