Bad design: This is the menu where a wrong click triggered the Hawaii missile alert Saturday

[RickMycroft]

Hopefully everyone’s launch systems have better designs. Or… maybe not.

[alahmnat]

@Medievalist

What makes this unforgivable is the fact that the designers were entirely unrestricted by mechanical issues (these cars are “shift by wire” and have no physical linkage) so ergonomics and style were the only considerations. And thus the designers went with lame style and dangerously bad ergonomics.

Don’t forget Chrysler’s dial shifter, which they brilliantly put right next to the radio’s volume knob. I’m sure that’s never caused a problem ever…

[glorpax]

i think about this every time i exit my vehicle with the engine still on… such a bizarre and tragic mishap

[Medievalist]

@alahmnat

Don’t forget Chrysler’s dial shifter, which they brilliantly put right next to the radio’s volume knob

Hally carp, that I’d never seen before. Madness. Look at the Park button.

I’ve actually driven a pickup truck with a (mechanical!) push button selector on the dash, and ridden in a car with push buttons in the steering wheel. All those designs were disliked by drivers, and the two dominant patterns (linear P-R-N-D-3-2-1 automatic and H pattern manual with D forward left) were the clear favorites.

[ficuswhisperer]

That just fills me with rage. Another brilliant design decision to have the “P” park setting for the transmission right next to the “P” button for the parking brake.

[Grey_Devil]

My previous car, a Ford Taurus had a Drive and Overdrive on the automatic shift options, but you couldn’t tell which was which. They were both labeled as D, the only difference between them was that one the font was black and the background white and the other had the colors inverted. The driver’s manual didn’t cover which was which (i know, i looked very closely). Eventually i found out which was the regular drive setting

[ficuswhisperer]

@v_vxn

I think he made a huge error with the non-dashboard of the Model 3.

I think it’s a complete abomination.

I don’t know why Musk is so set on the idea of “let’s change nearly every driver function to be on a featureless slab, and who needs an instrument panel anyway?”

People have called him out on it, but in his arrogance he keeps giving the “oh, don’t worry about it, you’ll love it” justification.

Maybe in the future when we have truly driverless cars something like this makes sense, but I want my controls to be usable by touch and in the same location every time – and I want my gauges to be easily visible while driving and in the same location.

[HMSGoose]

I think we can actually reconcile these divergent conversations. To start up a nuclear alert, you should have to press a clutch pedal, pull a stick into position, then ease on the “alarm” pedal…you know, like a real car.

[Schmorgluck]

Seriously, this shit looks like it’s been designed by a four year old in the early 2000s.

Wait… That was her!