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Right?!?I read the title and looked where SDKoala was from... San Diego.
If i could roll my eyes harder i would. Thanks for the laugh.
You don’t have to push the arrows to change the temp, you can just press on the numbers in the center and drag left or right.
Oops, my bad. Didn't see that this thread got dragged up from the depths of historyI'm aware. This was not the case when I wrote this post 5 months ago. UI has changed since then.
I read the title and looked where SDKoala was from... San Diego.
If i could roll my eyes harder i would. Thanks for the laugh.
Right?!?
SDKoala, are you using the Cabin Overheat Protection on your car? Wondering why it gets to 130 degrees?That's kind of the point. Why do these buttons need to take up valuable space when they aren't needed by every owner throughout the year? Obviously the controls need to be there somewhere, not where they need to be visible 100% of the time. Believe it or not, I've actually used the heated seats here in San Diego when it gets "cold" overnight. It looks like they remember the last setting and come back on after the car turns on again. That's even less that you have to interact with it.
If there is a federal regulation that stipulates the controls must always be visible (like how the hazard lights has to be a physical hardware button), I can live with that explanation. If it's just a UI design choice, Tesla could do better. The answer is obviously a customizable icon bar/launcher, which you would think would be easy to implement, but instead we get the design that a few people thinks works best.
What prompted me to write that initially in June in sunny San Diego was that the auto AC temp was not working well to regulate the car and requiring frequent adjusting of (at that time) the tiny up and down arrows. Wouldn't cool down fast enough after the cabin was 130F+, then wouldn't stop cooling shortly after getting to the target temp. I had my car checked out and there were no problems with the sensors and the behavior was deemed normal. Adjustments are a little better now after Version 9 introduced the slider, but hitting those tiny arrows all the time made me wish they were much bigger. They could easily be the size of the seat warmer controls and take their places.
I daresay there's almost nothing that's needed by every owner throughout the year. That being the case, the only way to satisfy your demands would be to make the UI skinnable. People have been asking for this since 2014 at least, and I bet all the way back to 2012. Their inaction -- and even progress in the opposite direction -- makes it clear Tesla isn't going to do it, and I'm not even sure they're wrong, there's something to be said for a predictable UI, especially on a car.That's kind of the point. Why do these buttons need to take up valuable space when they aren't needed by every owner throughout the year?
SDKoala, are you using the Cabin Overheat Protection on your car? Wondering why it gets to 130 degrees?
I daresay there's almost nothing that's needed by every owner throughout the year. That being the case, the only way to satisfy your demands would be to make the UI skinnable. People have been asking for this since 2014 at least, and I bet all the way back to 2012. Their inaction -- and even progress in the opposite direction -- makes it clear Tesla isn't going to do it, and I'm not even sure they're wrong, there's something to be said for a predictable UI, especially on a car.
Be that as it may, asking for a skinnable UI is reasonable, although you're probably never going to get it (sorry). The part of your position that I find amusing is the casual assertion that seat heaters are so unimportant their adjustment should be hidden away behind an extra UI step. To those of us in the snow belt, no, they aren't, and it shouldn't.
My experience has been that the seats heat up really fast - no pre-heating necessary!You want them on so you can preheat them. Maybe while driving and unoccupied they should be off.
Why do these buttons need to take up valuable space when they aren't needed by every owner throughout the year?