It does, but you rarely use it as the car usually knows which way you want to go and correctly selects forwards or reverse. My gf's one correctly shifts gear when parking up. I've been critical a quite a few things tesla have done but that system works really well. When you do need up use the screen it's no harder than any other method I've encountered in 30 years of driving.
That's interesting. I understand it shifting to park/drive automatically, but how does it automatically shift into reverse? And is parallel parking a pain, or does it just do the whole process automatically?
If you get in and there's something in front of you then it knows you want reverse and selects it. When you come to park it uses the turning of the steering wheel to recognise that you're going to reverse into a space, or for us, onto the drive. I can't think if I've had to parallel park it. It can park itself as well as any other car. I can't imagine it'd be a pain to manually swipe your finger over the screen when parking. I learnt to drive in a proper manual and was driving them up until a few years ago. It's considerably less effort than that.
How the fuck is this not irresponsibly dangerous? What if you get into a minor accident and spin off into the freeway, and you're in a dangerous position where you need to reverse and pull over to the side to avoid oncoming traffic? What if you're driving in the mountains and you need to quickly reverse to avoid a landslide? Is the shitass AI going to know you want reverse then? Is it going to decide for you that there's no reason to reverse?
Yeah i own a new tesla without the stalk. Once you get used to it you realize how nice it is not having to deal with shifting. I drive every day and haven’t needed to manually shift the car by swiping in over a month. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed owning 3 stick shift cars in the past.
Theres also buttons near the rear visor up top if you want to pick a specific drive mode.
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u/JebediahKerman4999 8h ago
I think tesla does this, no?