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It's indeed getting worse and worse driving cars.

I drive a Tesla Model 3 daily and agree to the critism about it's interface. On my last holidays I rented a Suzuki Vitara. Indeed it's much easier to find and operate the standard controls like for climate. Also cruise control with its 6 buttons took only a little learning.

The worst turned out to be CarPlay, a feature I always thought I'm missing with my Tesla. Occasionally it just didn't work, even though the phone was connected. So you get no navigation or you stop/start/wait until it works. And repeat that after every car stop situation. And when it works, forget about zooming or seeing anything more than the next step on this tiny display.

All in all I was happy to return to my Tesla again. But then I know all important controls from memory.

Anyway: Analog cars ruled indeed. I'd just use a simple phone holder too rather than anything like CarPlay.



> Occasionally it just didn't work

So it's basically not CarPlay itself, but its implementation?


Just like Bluetooth. As a user, you don't care whether it's the protocol or the implementation, you just cross fingers and hope it works.


I actually haven't had any problems with Bluetooth in a long while. It mostly just works at this point.


I can reliably reproduce pairing issues between fairly modern devices (e.g. both bought in 2020).




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