Know this has probably has been posted however these are issues I find with U11 interface:
- To many clicks to get to desired control or function
- Took away quick view of tire pressure, trip stats
- Harder to navigate HVAC settings
- Harder to get to heated seats without turning on the heat ,should have its own landing screen button
- harder to change profiles, should remain on top main screen
- Cant see connected phones via bluetooth only lists one phone , harder to switch between phones
- Not sure if perspective navigation is an option anymore or if its conditioned by speed
- bottom row has alot more room for function buttons, wasted space
- side repeater camera terrible at night for blind spot , shouldn't block auto pilot view of sides and rear when on
- Where can I see tire pressure ? why is it so many clicks
- navigation turn list seems to be gone, the format and look and feel of the navigation font needs to be improved
- buttons that are active should change colors instead of light grey to dark grey
Probably many more to come, this was a serious backward moving update, didnt see much improvement in this update functionally
It appears some things are still available to older Model S and X that aren't to newer cars. All the screens on the instrument cluster are still there and unchanged including the trip odometers, the energy display, and the tire pressure. There is also an energy display accessible from the quick menu at the bottom.
One thing that is gone is the ability to change the charge level on the charging screen. The screen now only has a couple of controls.
Another thing I noticed today is that zooming of the map is gone. You're stuck with one zoom in level.
The increased focus on entertainment is a waste of effort IMO. I know people are looking for things to do while at superchargers, but I've got other things to do while supercharging. If I need to kill time I usually make some phone calls I need or want to make or have a look around the places near the supercharger. Most of the time I can be sure of a strong cell signal which isn't always the case when on the road.
If I really want to play games or something, I also have the time to dig through menus to find the games. The stuff you would only do when parked are the things that can be buried three menus down with no problem. The stuff I need to do while driving should be the easiest to get to.
I'm glad you say there are capable people working at Tesla...lots of comments I have read after v11 suggest Tesla is populated by idiots form SoCal who don't drive cars!
I'm sure they drive cars, but the company doesn't have enough people who have to live in cold climate winters. Other American and most European cars have historically been fairly well set up for winter because all those companies are headquartered in places that get real winter weather. Tesla's center of gravity is all on the coastal parts of California that has mild winters. Designing for winter driving copies what other car makers do, but they don't grok what sort of things a driver does in a cold climate winter because few of them have ever had to do it.
When I lived in California I used the defroster occasionally, but it wasn't an absolute necessity most winter days. I didn't think about the advantages of a rear window defroster at all until I moved to Seattle with my California car. I remember the first winter swearing the next car was going to have a rear window defroster.
so-cal?
bay area is north. palo alto is north.
Tesla's design center is in Hawthorne, CA. Virtually every car maker does a lot of automotive design in the Los Angeles area. Los Angeles has a vibrant car culture and the premiere car design college program in the world is at The Art Center college in Pasadena (my father's alma mater). People graduate from there and refuse to leave Los Angeles.