Well said Dave;
The bottom line is, all rentals *must* have standard controls where you expect them - *no* learning curve (especially while driving = crash). It would also be nice if Tesla made a non-self driving "Autopilot" less car - and sell for less $$. While I've *never* met an EV I didn't like, conventional controls like my Bolt, Leaf (or even the Tesla-S) are better when *others* drive my car. Best Regards, Mark in Roanoke, VA From: "EV List Lackey" <evp...@drmm.net <mailto:evp...@drmm.net> > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org <mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org> > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Rental giant Hertz dumps EVs, including Teslas, for gas cars | Reuters Message-ID: <65a21eb1.23779.3149...@evpost.drmm.net <mailto:65a21eb1.23779.3149...@evpost.drmm.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On 12 Jan 2024 at 10:29, Rush via EV wrote: > I've heard lots of whining about how difficult change is but this > thread takes the cake VW is returning to real physical controls - at least simulated ones - because all over the world their customers have told VW that they despise touchscreens. But that's a matter of taste. Having controls where the driver expects them is a matter of *safety*. No one should have to watch a video introduction or take a class before driving a rental car, or even a new car he's just bought. Tesla moved controls to a touchscreen not because anyone asked for them there, but because Elon Musk himself, stuck in his adolescent science fiction world, wanted them there. Musk doesn't build cars for customers, he builds them for himself. If you happen to like what he likes, great. Otherwise, tough. That's been working surprisingly well for him, but that was before the unfolding "Cybertruck" disaster. That hideous, awkward, grossly inefficient lump belongs in a dystopian SF film, not on the road. If he stubbornly carries on with it, it will be Tesla's undoing. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Twenty years ago, if you were eating dinner under the unblinking eye of a video-camera, it was because you were in a supermax prison. Now, thanks to "luxury surveillance," you can get the same experience in your middle-class home with your Google, Apple or Amazon "smart" camera. -- Cory Doctorow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20240113/1a270dfe/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
