I’ve never even sat in one.

My Yaris is the bestest. I was talking about the Tesla Model S mostly, and that is in porduction with a bigger screen than this.

Were you not listening? I clearly stated this was unpreventable, and nothing could have been done.

I see Tesla’s screen and this interior as a kind of proof-of-concept. This is the pendulum swinging way in the other direction from all-manual knobs connected to cables. That isn’t ideal, nor is the giant screen with no tactile feedback.

I wasn’t aware of those steering wheel controls.

I reread your post and you nailed what has been troubling me - haptic feedback. The more and more automated a car gets, the more I feel like my eyes are the sense I am using more than anything else. My ears can’t hear a whine or a tick as much, my fingers aren’t touching knobs, or feeling the steering wheel vibrate. I…

Please take your logic and reason elsewhere. This has no place on my Gawker.

I think I’m officially old. I like my clunky knobs and manual transmissions.

I like the cut of your jib. You keep being you.

It’s just such a shame that there is literally NOTHING anyone could have done to prevent this. Not legislation, not background checks. Nothing. These things are unpreventable.

There was :(

le sigh. Cold, but completely appropriate.

I haven’t heard of that, and it sounds like a terrible idea.

I dunno. As a male person who knows nothing about fashion, I wouldn’t mind seeing a woman with boobs in that dress on the beach.

All hail hypno-cat

Because of course it will be Florida...

You are not fast.

I’d say no clunky dials for climate control. The gigantic iPad in a Tesla has me genuinely concerned for distracted driving. In my Yaris I can control all the climate stuff, cruise control and stereo by feel of the knobs. You have to LOOK at screens :(

Good! That means more people buying lower-emissions vehicles overall. It also forces Tesla to keep innovating, which is good :)

Do we know if any of Tesla’s now-public-domain patents are being used in the engineering of this thing?