So many of their older ones are slow / janky etc. Carplay is a godsend on their other vehicles.
I'm assuming buttery smooth ipad like experience with great touch screen - can anyone confirm this? Burned too many times to trust the marketing vids.
Tesla hasn't been using automotive grade parts in its cars:
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...
Tesla says the main interface to the car was only supposed to function for 5 years. I don't think anyone buying those cars would have expected that:
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39065/tesla-claims-failing-tou...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-recall-idUSKBN2A21F...
Automotive grade parts do matter.
The UX is not very good. I sat in countless makes of rental cars and when there are tactile switches for core functions like climate control, I never had any problem whatsoever to use it without even thinking about it; even while driving I could say with confidence I can quickly adjust whatever climate control and not to have to worry about it. But here, to me, the strictly touchpad focussed input and menu layout was simply confusing. It's not intuitive where your paired Bluetooth phone options are, for example. The radio screen is a pain to use. I didn't dare messing with it while driving, and I didn't dare navigate through 2+ layers of screen to get to climate control while driving :/
Maybe it's bearable if you use that car on a daily basis and get married to it, but as a swing by experience, it's certainly not very impressive. Even the MINIs and BMWs I drove, with the weird spinning menu controller (at least in previous generations), where often better than the free form touchpad input in this car. I wouldn't know if anybody is able to make it better though (haven't driven that many different makes).