GRA
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What's my personal experience got to do with it? Every car for the past 3 or 4 decades has put the cruise control set/adjust/cancel control in a position where the driver never has to remove their hands from the steering wheel or look away from the road to use it. Tesla has now done likewise.EVDRIVER said:Put at risk. Seriously. Have you spent much time driving one? What is your personal experience?GRA said:Introducing a car with controls which manifestly decrease the driver's ability to watch the road when you intend to reduce that later, rather than waiting to do it right from the beginning because you're worried about your income flow/public opinion, is exactly the same sort of money vs. risk to customer decision that GM made. GM would have re-designed the ignition for the next generation of car, but decided not to fix it as soon as they knew it was an issue.EVDRIVER said:The AP was always intended to be on the wheel controls which is very functional. Comparing this to GM and the ignition is nonsense. Because a feature implementation was delayed does not mean it was an afterthought or they were being cheap at the cost of safety. Most speculation here is just that and the system has a design goal. Unlike Nissan, Tesla knows what they can implement and they are not locked into the initial release, many non-Tesla owners don't understand this. Regardless this was a short term solution that would be on limited cars based on roll out. Unlike Nissan, if something was not ready one would have to wait many years to get the feature.
How does this differ from Tesla, who knew it was an issue before they introduced the car in the first place? Was any extra wiring or hardware required to implement this? No. Or was Tesla so busy working on the design interface of the touch screen because of the high-tech gee whiz factor that they didn't have the personnel or the interest to take care of the basics, and said "we'll just put off this until later; the AP is intended to be on the wheel controls which is very functional; it's just a short term solution that will be on limited cars based on roll out, and only a few people will be put at risk. We are willing to have them take that risk."
Are you seriously suggesting that requiring a driver to do both doesn't increase the risk of accident? If so, why did Tesla add it, especially as "They always planned" to do so? Does it take a federal regulation to get Tesla to do this before releasing the car to the public? By your logic, it would be perfectly acceptable for Tesla to initially put the turn signals on the touchscreen as well, "because it was a short term solution that would be on limited cars based on roll out".