This is absolutely brain dead. If you have to go through a touch screen to put the car in park you will have bad accidents. Additionally I doubt that an automatic selection no matter how smart of an AI can correctly read my mind.<p>I, on multiple occasions had to quickly put a car in park or neutral (plus hand break) in order to quickly exit and not have it run over someone.<p>If you want to add automation fine. But leave a stalk or physical override of some sort.
Bold move from Tesla. This could end very badly, though.<p>The Jeep Grand Cherokee used (maybe still uses?) an unconventional design for its drive selection (the knob always returned to its initial position) and it confused a lot of people, including actor Anton Yelchin who died because his Grand Cherokee rolled and pinned him against a pillar.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Yelchin#Lawsuit_and_recalls" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Yelchin#Lawsuit_and_reca...</a>
Is there still a physical drive control button or knob on Model 3's? I'm reading mixed things about a button on a steering wheel versus not. I can't tell who's speculating and who's angry and who owns one of these in the comments for this and The Verge.
Pretty much everybody who isn't an automotive bean counter that gets existed over reduced part count hates the gear selector FCA knob.<p>Everybody who isn't a pencil pusher for a safety agency hates that you can't open the doors on (all?) modern cars with it in gear (because the FCA knob sucks and people would run themselves over not realizing the vehicle was in gear).<p>In what universe is taking it a step further and going to a touch screen a good idea?