I like how he gives his air a brush and checks for post-nasal drip, always good practice when the cop's walking up. The cop does have a point though. Driving our son's new Mazda CX-5, I found the reliance on the screen for various controls very distracting. I think the motor vehicle regulation bodies should take a long look at this nonsense. I'm not even happy with indistinguishable-without-looking, non-tactile buttons. I've got a strong hunch as to why the auto manufacturers are so enamoured with dumping more and more controls onto the screen ($'s)....
pretty sad - how many YouTube vid's brag & show how they successfully resist being pulled over. Comedian Chris Rock did a funny skit how acting lame can go very wrong - caution - rough language ; Safe bet - most plug-in car driver's knee-jerk reaction is to assume there's some kind of disrespect /challenge/ put down meant if one gets pulled over. .
I don't see the connection between electric cars and the need to have screens controlling basic functions, especially the "necessity" functions. A particular example: I don't relish taking my eyes off the road in order to adjust heater controls if my windshield's fogging up, at night, on a windy road. Would much prefer a tactile/manual control that I can find and adjust completely by feel.
several manufacturers have voice-activated features, including heat/cold/fan/defrost/temperature controls. Voice control of the car's climate IRC, many of those features in the model 3 are in the process of being activated through over-the-air updates. This happened on a few occasions with our model X. Roughly 5 months into ownership, we got fog/rain/sprinkling sensing wipers. .
I'd argue that these are adaptions to accommodate an "advance" that's actually set basic control ergonomics back.
