Good debate here guys
I believe that Tesla is doing this to make their cars faster and less expensive to manufacturer. As they get closer (not ther yet) to Full Self Driving cars, the computer will most likely be doing all the normally button controled decisions. ie, A sensor will determine if a defroster should be turned on for a sensor or the windshield.
I will conceed that a center mounted horn button on the steering wheel should still be included.
We have mostly lost the battle of the manual clutch. For many, it was a writ of passage to master the stick shifting mechanism. Many of us long to be able to precisely determine the amount and rate of engagement of the pressure clutch. Now, of course, all that is taken care of by the computer.
A computer controled system, most of us favor, is the ability for our modern cars to be programmed with our custom configurations for seat positions, mirror positions, temperature and fan speed preferences, radio stations, steering wheel positioning, etc. Nice to simply slide into our drivers seats and have everything automagically reset to out preferences. Wifey gets hers as well.
I believe that Tesla is doing this to make their cars faster and less expensive to manufacturer. As they get closer (not ther yet) to Full Self Driving cars, the computer will most likely be doing all the normally button controled decisions. ie, A sensor will determine if a defroster should be turned on for a sensor or the windshield.
I will conceed that a center mounted horn button on the steering wheel should still be included.
We have mostly lost the battle of the manual clutch. For many, it was a writ of passage to master the stick shifting mechanism. Many of us long to be able to precisely determine the amount and rate of engagement of the pressure clutch. Now, of course, all that is taken care of by the computer.
A computer controled system, most of us favor, is the ability for our modern cars to be programmed with our custom configurations for seat positions, mirror positions, temperature and fan speed preferences, radio stations, steering wheel positioning, etc. Nice to simply slide into our drivers seats and have everything automagically reset to out preferences. Wifey gets hers as well.