> complex and unwieldy nature of modern car UI (especially in electric cars)
Honestly, I love the UX and UI of a Tesla.
It automates so many things that I find tedious in other cars: lock/unlock, close windows, pre-heat/cool, auto-set navigation to office in the morning and home in the evening, set seating and other adjustments for the driver based on which phone key was used. Navigation works thanks to the free connectivity (all other in-car gpses I've had to use were useless). Nice screen to select and play music. Voice command works reasonably well for selecting music.
It's not perfect, but I prefer the UX & UI over all ICE cars I've driven before.
As an example: my user journey when starting my drive to the office in the morning is a 2 step process: (1) open door and (2) put in drive.
Especially in the winter that used to be 10+ steps for an ICE car: (1) find key (2) unlock car (3) open car (4) adjust seat because my wife drove before (5) press button to start engine (6) front-window defrost (7) rear window defrost (8) manually scrape the ice off the front window (9) select office in gps (10) release parking brake (11) clutch (12) put in gear.
Coming back to this I just wanna make an accurate comparison here
As an example: my user journey when starting my drive to the office in the morning is a 2 step process: (1) find phone, or hope it hasn't run out of battery while you were wherever (2) open door (3) sit down (4) close door and (5) put in drive and (6) drive because it's not actually self-driving despite the name.
Especially in the winter that used to be 10+ steps for an ICE car: don't find key because it's on the keyring I used to lock the house; unlock car while you're walking to it so it doesn't make any difference; (1) open door; (2) sit down; don't adjust seat because plenty of ICE cars have had automatic seat adjustment for decades, this isn't even remotely close to an innovation, I used to have a 1996 with this feature, and it could even be linked to the keypad code you used or the keyfob you used; (3) close door; (4) press button to start engine; automatic defrosters also exist; remote start also exists; (5) put in drive and (6) drive
It's almost like either way the process is literally "get key, get in, and drive away" because a car is a car... The key being your phone doesn't actually change anything.
While I agree with the sentiment that Tesla has wonderful UI/UX, your 10+ step EV-to-ICE comparison is disingenuous. Tesla does not scrape the ice by itself.
Honestly, I love the UX and UI of a Tesla.
It automates so many things that I find tedious in other cars: lock/unlock, close windows, pre-heat/cool, auto-set navigation to office in the morning and home in the evening, set seating and other adjustments for the driver based on which phone key was used. Navigation works thanks to the free connectivity (all other in-car gpses I've had to use were useless). Nice screen to select and play music. Voice command works reasonably well for selecting music.
It's not perfect, but I prefer the UX & UI over all ICE cars I've driven before.
As an example: my user journey when starting my drive to the office in the morning is a 2 step process: (1) open door and (2) put in drive.
Especially in the winter that used to be 10+ steps for an ICE car: (1) find key (2) unlock car (3) open car (4) adjust seat because my wife drove before (5) press button to start engine (6) front-window defrost (7) rear window defrost (8) manually scrape the ice off the front window (9) select office in gps (10) release parking brake (11) clutch (12) put in gear.