Drive one for a week and find out
it’s really not as dramatic as people make out. The car I drove before this one had 100% physical buttons.
The cars automatic AC is actually really good, completely set and forget including the automatic heated seats and defogging which just work. The heated steering wheel is a touch screen button or voice command.
Media is on the screen but you also have physical buttons on the steering wheel.
Nav has pretty much 100% touch screen in nearly every car for well over a decade and probably isn’t something you should be trying to type into when driving in any car or a stand alone unit. Voice commands do work reasonably well.
Stuff that’s in the screen that probably shouldn’t be:
Fog lights
Manual wiper controls - you do have a physical button for single wipe and washer jets and the automatic mode is the default and it works. When you hit the button it also pops up the wiper menu right next to where your hand would be.
The one thing with Tesla’s screen over other cars is that it’s actually laid out quite well, it’s very responsive and the deepest you can go is two layers. You can also customise the home row with the controls/apps that you want.
That most certainly isn’t the case for a lot of cars whos menus seems to go into layer after layer after layer for fairly basic functionality, that’s then combined with laggy animations between each button press.
I should add that I have not driven the stalkless Model S or X. Having all that as steering wheel buttons look aweful to use, particularly on roundabouts.
