I would wish for an option to put the screen in an Large Text/Icon mode allowing the driver to easier encounter the most important information like Speed, Battery level, Navigation information etc. Most useful for people normally needing reading glasses
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I fail to understand why somebody would want to redesign her environment, instead of solving the problem at its root.
> I don't get it. How did you people complaining about this issue drive your ICE cars without glasses? Could you see the speedometer? Could you see the radio stations? Could you see actually see things better? I doubt it...
Good point. With traditional analog gauges, the numbers on the speedometer are much smaller than on the Tesla display.
I had a digital speedometer on a car I bought in 1989 and it took a while to get used to it at first.
Wonder if people had the same learning curve when looking at a round clock as compared to a digital one when they first came out.
It was a lot easier to set the time on a watch than figuring out how to get the VCR to stop flashing 12:00!
> Does the brain take longer to interpret a number and relate it to speed as compared to looking at a dial with needles?
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> I had a digital speedometer on a car I bought in 1989 and it took a while to get used to it at first.
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> Wonder if people had the same learning curve when looking at a round clock as compared to a digital one when they first came out.
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> It was a lot easier to set the time on a watch than figuring out how to get the VCR to stop flashing 12:00!
It is a good question. I believe it takes longer to interpret a digital gauge as opposed to analog. It does take some time to get accustom to the digital gauge, but not a big deal. When digital gauges came on the market back in the 80's, they became very popular in cars for a while as it was seen as an advancement. Interestingly, many of the same car models went back to analog even if it was an analog representation using a digital screen. The Corvette comes to mind as a car that went from displaying the speed as a number and then reverted back to needles. One advantage of just displaying the number is that takes up less screen real estate. As result, the number can be made larger and easier to see.
> Fonts and icons used to be larger. It was easier to hit the targets quickly too. I wish they would roll it back.
Once again, Elon has already said the UI will be configurable with an upcoming update.
> > @Tesla2018 said:
> > Does the brain take longer to interpret a number and relate it to speed as compared to looking at a dial with needles?
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> It is a good question. I believe it takes longer to interpret a digital gauge as opposed to analog. …
It differs from person to person. I'm a number person. I don't like analog clocks. I am very happy with the big numbers speed display in a Tesla and would hate to have a rotating pointer instead.
> > @"stingray.don_98527447" said:
> > > @Tesla2018 said:
> > > Does the brain take longer to interpret a number and relate it to speed as compared to looking at a dial with needles?
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> > It is a good question. I believe it takes longer to interpret a digital gauge as opposed to analog. …
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> It differs from person to person. I'm a number person. I don't like analog clocks. I am very happy with the big numbers speed display in a Tesla and would hate to have a rotating pointer instead.
I guess I'm just old school. :)
I move my head to get my progressives in the right spot for focus, not to align with the screen. I move my eyes for that just like “lucky you”.