Feh, and objectivists INSIST that taxation is theft. Well, you can’t take it with you, either.

“Tokyo By Night” rears its ugly design head once again. Honestly, it’s like a vampire character in a bad novel — just when you are sure it’s dead, it comes back!!!!

Damn Elon, take it easy. Go launch a rocket or something the world’s still spinning.

SMH. Good to see that typical Jalopnik rage is still a thing.

Absolutely correct, this was a design decision driven by production economics. That does not mean that it cannot also be a really good decision.

It’s from the same school of minimalism that gave us thermostats that have one or two elegant buttons that have to be hit 35 times in the right sequence to set the temperature for every six hour period of the entire week, when all you want is to turn the heat or air up or down a degree or two.

The use of central screens plus TFT or whatever they are screens in front of the driver does not bode well for cheapskates who buy used cars or just want to drive their car until the end of its reasonable life span (guilty).

The reason that they did that wasn’t for cool or art’s sake, although cars before the 30's were similar. The reason was cheapness - the same dash could be used for British and export markets.

That’s why they have auto pilot,

It’s still a shitty design whether or not any of us actually ordered one.

Their attempt at minimalism means all of the basic controls and gauges are crammed into a single touchscreen that’s impossible to use without taking your eyes off the road. Absolutely atrocious.

If those are boost gauges I feel like there’d be none left for the engine itself...

Great minds think alike!

Stop wearing your chain wallet in the car, dude.

Yes, but how will I know that the glove box is a safe temperature to open?

I have no problem with this.

I didn’t buy the 7 yet because of the headphone jack, still using my old 6+

Except that most people aren’t over Apple removing the headphone jack. It’s still a pain. Every single day.

So all the controls will all be on that one screen. If the screen fails your car is undriveable.

And even if they did do stuff with it...