Comments

• Sting68

  January 1

  I agree fully!

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• atrieger_98438781

  January 1

  Kind of a big deal. I have good sight and can’t read quickly while driving. Pls make larger ASAP

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• AHL

  January 1

  Fully agree, i thought it's just me :)

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• marysanbrook_547047

  January 1

  It is not just you...the font size is absurdly small. I cannot see it at all. And what is up with all the games? I don't play games in my car, is this a thing? Is it too much to ask to give us the information we need when we are driving in a format that is readable?
  
  And for those of you making rude and inappropriate remarks about people complaining about this perfectly legit problem, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you are not going to be 30 forever so you might want to tone down the offensive sniping. Or go get yourself a pickup with a gun rack and AM radio so you can be with your people.

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• wangwj08_98323773

  January 1

  Completely agree!

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• lilbean

  January 2

  Complains about rude remarks and... makes rude remarks.🤣🤣🤣

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• MilkFloat_

  January 2

  Fully agree with all the remarks
  The font size is far too small for glance reading
  I have 4 Tesla’s and the whole family are moaning about this.
  Can’t Tesla give everyone the option to increase or decrease the font size.
  Lots of nice updates lately but this one is not good

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• cliffordbaynon_93393562

  January 3

  > @JUNO said:
  > We just updated our X with the new software (dec 29). Once on the road, I noticed changes to the dashboard, such as changes to the locations of drive, park, etc. and the locations of the Posted speed limit sign, the autopilot circle, and the autopilot max speed circle. I will adjust to these puzzling changes. Here’s the BIG problem: I can hardly read the speed related numbers. I am 59 with perfect vision when I wear eyeglasses (which I always do). Tesla, please enable us to make the font sizes of these important numbers larger or please send a new update restoring the original font size. This is a significant safety issue. Thank you.
  
  I FULLY AGREE!!! THIS KINDLY NEEDS TO BE A PRIORITY.

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• dhorvitz_93320000

  January 3

  Agree. Tesla engineers are all young. Tesla owners, probably not so young.

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• avesraggiana

  January 3

  More evidence that Teslas are designed by computer/coding/IT people, and not by "car people."
  
  Long established ICE auto manufacturers would never think that any of this was okay.

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• ghodratk_93387851

  January 4

  Fully agree with all the remarks
  The font size is far too small for glance reading

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• wsp_98460439

  January 4

  I am an ophthalmologist, so I know about visual angles, contrast sensitivity, glare, and other such eye stuff. This is not a problem just at Tesla (although it's a big problem here). It's that most of the engineers and designers are younger people for whom there are not many visual issues (yet). We need universal visibility standards in the US that enforce visibility of anything where there is a potential safety hazard, especially cars. But a small font in gray on gray is potentially dangerous, even to younger eyes under certain circumstances. There are scientific criteria that can easily be used to properly regulate this. On a Tesla, of course, a user could even switch between larger/bolder and tinier/fainter if he or she wanted.

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• Kris_L

  January 4

  I am frustrated by the amount of energy used to create games while at the same time the lack of thought behind potential consequences of making changes to the font size of important information. Please include my entire family of drivers in requesting the ability to enlarge the impossibly small display fonts, or return to the previous font size altogether.

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• bazinchiro_98378433

  January 5

  Font too small on dash after update. Please fix or let us change it!

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• hoffenberg_98178309

  January 5

  Too funny....I thought it me too, when I could not find park/drive in the usual spot. It was a weird 10 seconds. And way, way too small.

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• bp

  January 6

  You can't blame this entirely on the developers.
  
  Musk likely is personally involved in getting these releases out - and if he thinks it looks OK, he usually presses the development team to get the software distributed quickly.
  
  Tesla is supposed to have internal testers - and has a small group of external beta testers - who should catch these obvious design flaws and bugs - and they continue to miss these obvious problems. Several years ago, during media player UI "improvements", they removed the first letter scroll bar for media player lists - and they put it back quickly after customers loudly complained.
  
  A larger concern is about Tesla's testing methodology. If they continue to miss such obvious problems with the user interface, does this inspire confidence that they are adequately testing other portions of the software - such as FSD?
  
  Going back to the early production vehicles (we purchased a VIN 3xxx S P85 in early 2012), Tesla customers have been recommending Tesla expand their external beta testing - which is even of greater need now that Tesla has software running on multiple models, in many configurations, in many countries, and in many languages. No internal testing group or small group of external beta testers can test the software in enough situations or on enough vehicle configurations to provide adequate testing...

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• JimHock

  January 9

  I immediately noticed the same thing(FONT Size TOO Small) and right away thought they did not test this with anyone older. I am 60 and am far-sighted, and need glasses to read. This font size is so small it is a serious safety issue since I can hardly see anything related to speed or self-drive icons. Time and temp(which is re-located to a place where the front passenger can not see it without leaning over) are also so small its ridiculous. I end up looking down far too long to squint out any of the numbers, in particular the speed related ones. Tesla, either give us an option for font size like iOS/Andriod phones or please increase a couple of type sizes. You need to do this soon.

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• Weldd

  January 11

  Is there an update or better yet a fix for this? thanks...

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• bp

  January 11

  As JimHock commented - the small fonts introduce an unnecessary distraction for drivers that have difficulty reading small fonts - so this is a safety issue - and should be addressed in an upcoming release.
  
  If Tesla doesn't want to do this for all drivers, they should add "Accessibility" settings that would allow drivers to select the size of font being used - something older drivers and those with vision challenges would select, like they would on computers, tables and smartphones.

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• ddolapsakis_98379890

  January 15

  Fully agree!! I wonder though, does anyone from Tesla read these comments on the Forum??
  
  And WHY DOES TESLA NOT HAVE A TECHNICAL ISSUES PLATFORM, WHERE COMPLAINTS/SUGGESTIONS CAN BE ENTERED, IN A COMPREHENSIVE AND CATEGORIZED MANNER, SO THAT THEY CAN BE QUICKLY BE BROUGHT TO THE TESLA ENGINEERING TEAM AND THUS QUICKLY RESOLVED??
  
  I also agree that TOO MUCH effort is put by Texla into gaming and entertainment gimmicks and important issues are swept aside.

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• bp

  January 15

  Every time I drive our X with the teeny fonts update, feels like a trip to the doctor's office to do an eye exam - "Please read the bottom line on the chart"...

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• erictridoc_45986

  January 16

  How about a gradient slide bar for font size? It could be similar to an iPhone or iPad....
  Font size really is too small for folks like me who use progressive lens.

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• aoe1_98255137

  January 23

  Yes indeed Tesla appears to have no Customer service portals to post /discuss problems like this and get a response. There is just this forum for us to ventilate with no inkling as to whether what we say here gets to our obviously very self satisfied high command.

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• hilliard528_98661406

  January 23

  fonts are bigger again in latest update.

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• s.simard_98481799

  January 25

  Agreed! Plz fix the font size, safety issue! Can’t glance at dashboard and get useful info! Way too small!

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