> Imagine that sometimes you get in a car and 50% of your braking is gone. Sometimes it isn’t.
> Braking is fundamental to NOT KILLING PEOPLE.
You should always use the braking pedal in dangerous situations. Also, you can immediately feel the lack of regen when starting the drive, it's not a surprise.
> There used to be a button on the screen to turn on, off windscreen wipers.
Literally just press the physical wipers button on the stalk to show the UI. It can't be easier.
> But don’t auto wipers in the Tesla work? No. They are shit. Just don’t even try.
Auto wipers work perfectly 99% of the time.
Sure, the UI update is not great, Tesla already acknowledged that and will probably push a fix soon.
Taking your foot off the accelerator should not cause braking. There is a brake pedal for braking. I tried driving a Tesla, and this departure from the way normal cars work really turned me off.
Electric cars don't have that, so they simulate it. Automatic cars do that too, to an extent.
The piece says: "Tesla have made updates which make safety-critical features harder to access."
Conspiracy theory would mean "intentional." There is absolutely nothing in the piece which suggests anything other than very bad design.
This reduces the quality of the piece (I wouldn't have placed it on the front page), but that's different from conspiracy theory.