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If you're even remotely in control of your senses, there's not really any chance of getting it wrong. At least not more than with any other control scheme. This sort of thing doesn't happen to sober people.
Sober people don't accidentally back up too far when making a 3 point turn? Your foot has never slipped or pressed the wrong pedal? Youve never turned the wheel too far? Never shifted into the wrong gear? You're either a perfect specimen or completely full of shit
I have made all of those mistakes but I was always attentive (and sober) enough to not cause an accident.
Lol no... I drive a manual transmission. I can tell you with my eyes closed what gear I'm in and I can change it to any other gear without opening my eyes.
Touch screens for controlling important functions of a car are a stupid idea.
Well, I can tell you with my eyes closed whether my car goes forward or backward. Which is all I need to know. There's really zero potential for confusion here.
Oh good - you'll know whether you hit that child or not. 👍
Edit: This actually has to be the stupidest response to defending Tesla I have ever seen BTW. It's a pretty low bar though - so I'm not quite sure if you've managed to limbo beneath it. But definitely in the bottom 3. So stupid, in fact, that I have to believe you're just trolling or my faith in humanity will simply be destroyed. Thus any reply will be ignored.
Mitch McConnell's billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao begs to differ.
Ironically, your yourself laid out why you're wrong. Touchscreens remove one of your senses... Touch. Most people can drive without stop looking at the road with some muscle memory and quick touch feeling. Not do easy on a touch screen which, as Angela Chao will confirm, do not like at all to have water on them when used (ghost touches and such)
Modern Car UI had evolved to all be the same because in a panic or even causal driving, it's safer to have manual or automatic shift patterns to all be the same and the clutch/break/gas pedals all in the same order. I won't touch something with a ~~knob~~ dial shifter. I shouldn't have to take my eyes off the road to shift gears or just from forward to reverse.
edited for clarity.
* confused manual driver sounds *
Why are you looking at the shifter when using it? Don't you know it's shy?