Crazy that it was just this year that Mark Rober posted his infamous video showing a Tesla getting fooled by a painting, and praising Luminar (causing the stock to jump by 30%)...

Agreed, we should have ATM machines pay taxes, and internet pay taxes for replacing stockbrokers and travel agents...

But ignores the safety aspect of #1 killer: cars (for people below the age of 50).

I miss the old days when one could just walk into the shareholder meeting in the Computer History Museum. Too bad TSLA moved to Texas.

I was fortunate enough to take his Quantum Mechanics class when I was a student at SUNY, Stony Brook. He used to a drive a simple white Honda Accord that was 7+ years old.

Godspeed (or naturespeed for atheists)! Starship is my only hope for ever being able to go to space (assuming that they can bring the costs down).

One might say... lightspeed? :)

I'm not religious and still use 'godspeed', 'goddamnit', 'Jesus (opt. "fuckin' | "Herbert Walker") Christ'... just feels right, ya know

Pretty sure that's frowned upon if you do happen to be religious. Same though.

I hope they expand these other areas with theirs solar canopies for charging and servers on roller skates. I can't wait to be served popcorn by a robot.

You will have to wait a pretty long time. The robot was teleoperated, and only there for a couple of first days. It's gone by now.

How uninspired are we that the best we can hope for is to be served popcorn by robots? I look forward to a future where the mentally ill in Los Angeles don’t live in tents by ditches; where blue collar migrant workers aren’t snatched off the streets or racially profiled; where human dignity takes precedence over money for a few people. Sorry but it is not possible to separate any Musk project, however benign, from the reality that he is a force for evil as far as human dignity and flourishing are concerned. Enjoy your rollerskating robots.

And now Starlink is down as well. I wonder if they are related.

I miss the good old days when the credit card companies had no issues with Playboy or Hustler.

Tesla is the worst offender. I hate that my passenger has to close my map view to adjust climate or change music.

Get rid of these things they are for the car makers not the car users.

On Model 3/Y, when you pop up something else the next navigation direction starts showing on the top-left. I know it's not the same, but it's easy to miss it.

And by far, it's not the worse offender. Some cars completely hide any instructions (looking at you, BYD)!

It's odd they don't give you a window manager and just pigeon hole you into a modal UI.

Why am I using a window manager or modal UI? We have the perfect technology for 90% of what a car UI does: Buttons.

For navigation, the map view is fine on a tablet-like device, but nobody can resist adding distractions to it.

I mean thats your view, i don't see why i need to see a map fully if the turn instructions are always visible, lol and especially if the passengers not gonna be sitting in the fuckin AC window for an hour lol

Older teslas were better (not perfect). You had nav and status on dashboard in front of you, dedicated physical controls for turn signals, shifting, wipers, autopilot, etc. Central display was for big nav map and configuration. There was also a "rim" around the display to rest your hand on when touching something.

They still screwed it up with software updates. Touch targets got smaller and harder to hit in a moving car. Grey on white controls were harder to see, and frequently disappeared until until touched. Even dedicated controls like the passenger seat heater would disappear when the passenger got up. Controls rearranged themselves.

They need to hire some masters of human factors like modern airplane cockpit designers. In a plane, a mistake is a lost plane + faa investigation.

And listen to their customers, because most of the mistakes are blindingly obvious to everyone.

Ford Mustang Mach-E has a combination

and a vertical screen like the older tesla models

Personally as an amateur designer I love the idea of working on a huge canvas. Turning a car into a Gundam cockpit or a store into

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or lighting up the whole sky on a cloudy sky with a laser sound like a lot of fun to me, but subjecting other people to this is another thing.

It's okay, even "professional" designers don't seem to know the "usability" term :)

For you it may be a con butt for others it's a wide open win.

I only played that Doom mod once

I agree. I do all of my charging at home but I still love the screen. I’ll go out for a coffee at lunch and catch up on my TV programs in comfort.