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Love my car but why oh why has all the important stuff like speed and gear selection been made so small as to be barely legible??
Please give us sensibly sized text to read. It’s dangerous as it currently is.
Please give us sensibly sized text to read. It’s dangerous as it currently is.
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The dashboard UI changes are likely in anticipation of FSD visualization improvements coming in later releases - and it's pretty clear many customers are not happy with the small font being used - so Tesla is likely going to fix this (soon).
> Elon has already said that Tesla was going to provide some ability to choose different UI options. No timetable was provided as far as I know.
Are you taking bets on that one? If so what are the odds? I doubt if fonts sixes will be available.
> > @EVRider said:
> > Elon has already said that Tesla was going to provide some ability to choose different UI options. No timetable was provided as far as I know.
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> Are you taking bets on that one? If so what are the odds? I doubt if fonts sixes will be available.
Elon didn’t say you would be able to change font sizes directly. If I recall correctly, I think the idea was that you could select different UI themes, and some would likely have larger fonts than others.
Even if that happens, it’s a safe bet that some people won’t like any of the UI options.
> ... stuff like speed and gear selection been made so small as to be barely legible??
> ... It’s dangerous as it currently is.
I can agree that it's important for the speed readout to be easily legible, but anyone who can't tell whether their car is going forward or backward shouldn't be driving.
> Interesting when i talked to my dealer about the font size today he said he had no idea there was a problem. I pointed out that there were lots of posts on the forum. his answer was that no-one at Tesla reads the forum :)
IN the beginning, they read the forums. Since they don't care about customers any more, they don't.
I have now received the update and cannot see what the problem is.
I am 79 years old and need glasses which I have lost and not replaced yet and have no problem with reading the information.
I do like the new layout
> What's hardest to read is the TACC set speed - the tiny number inside the blue circle - and that is an important number to easily read, which impacts driving.
Try my new Binnacle Bifocals...works great for just one area of the IC, such as speed or TACC setpoint....
https://youtu.be/yEzcmOSNAgM
Patent not pending....
> Fixed with the latest update
What, exactly, is fixed with "the latest update", and what is the number of that update?
> > @bob_93352314 said:
> > ... stuff like speed and gear selection been made so small as to be barely legible??
> > ... It’s dangerous as it currently is.
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> I can agree that it's important for the speed readout to be easily legible, but anyone who can't tell whether their car is going forward or backward shouldn't be driving.
Sorry, I'm one that like to known what gear I'm in BEFORE accelerating the car forward or backwards. I'd be more worried about people driving that aren't concerned with the same.
At the bottom, not only is the font larger, but the key items are now in bold.
At the top, the cruise control widget has been redesigned, not only making it larger, but also further increasing the area inside the circle for the set speed - making that even larger.
This was such an obvious change, Tesla should change their development and testing process to catch this type of UI problem before the releases are distributed.
This isn't the first time obvious UI design flaws made it into the official release (like when they decided to remove the first letter scroll bar from media player lists or the time-of-day clock from the console display), which they also fixed quickly in a bug fix release.
As they used to say when I started out in Design last century, "The pay is the same if you are drawing erasing..."