No love for yoke. Fine. Just get your facts straight once for a change. Oppinions don't matter.
It's a bit awkward that you try to treat my remarks as simply some sort of mob mentality because I own and have been driving a Tesla for almost three years now. My opinions are based upon having actually used the car over that time. I've gone through all the different updates and changes, and I've seen what Tesla appears to prioritize and what they ignore. Yes, it's still my opinion because it's based upon what I care about in a car, and I won't be silly enough to suggest that it applies to everyone.
In regard to Tesla's sales, I think that it's usually one of two things: interest in EVs and Tesla's brand recognition. The former is pretty self-explanatory, and it doesn't help that Tesla is arguably ahead of most. The latter reminds me a lot of Apple where they would sell based upon prestige and the idea of owning an Apple product. Although, along those lines, it's rather awkward when someone asks me how I like my car, and I either have to sort of hand-wave ("Oh, it's okay..."), or go into a long tirade about how much I don't like it. Some aspects are rather surprising to some... especially when I remark that you can't take a ~130-mile round trip in the car on a full charge.
Part of my annoyance also comes from how my Tesla seems like my least reliable car yet. I had a lot of issues early on with the vision system failing, and they ended up replacing my left fender camera twice and the right fender camera once. You'd probably be surprised at how many aspects are tied to the vision system too. There are some obvious ones like auto-wipers (really makes the lack of a physical control not so great), but it also won't show speed limit signs... even though they're also based on map data. Right now, I've been dealing with a random issue where my charge port door will not open when I press the icon on the screen. The car definitely goes through the routine as the charge window pops up, but the door either partly opens or doesn't open at all.
No, you definitely don't want to design a hot-swappable steering wheel. Total overkill for what's an edge case.
I agree that it's overkill. (That hasn't stopped Tesla in the past.
) It's simply an idea of a method if you want to provide users --perhaps those in the fancier Model S variants -- different use case options. Personally, I'd rather see the option to choose during the build process.
If I was trying to make a point that new tech X was originally controversial, but ultimately successful, I wouldn't pick Windows Vista to make my case. It's widely considered the worst release since WinMe. Vista had a troubled development cycle, and was promptly replaced by Windows 7 just two years later. Don't forget that end-user OS upgrades were relatively niche at the time compared to ubiquitous mobile OS upgrades of today. So the primary way of getting Windows Vista is from the purchase of a new PC. Corporate buyers hated Vista so much that Microsoft introduced "downgrade rights" to boost lackluster PC sales.
Vista was eventually straightened out toward the end of its life cycle. What you're talking about is another one of the issues that Vista faced where OEMs were equipping their machines based upon minimum specifications for Windows XP, and as a result, Vista's more resource-heavy UI and higher number of services caused issues. Of course, I didn't have that problem because I had a custom built PC, which had enough memory and a dedicated GPU. The point that I was getting at was that it didn't matter that Vista was technically fine by its end, but that its public opinion was tarnished. Windows 7 was Vista with an updated UI and some under-the-hood changes, and all the changes that caused problems with Vista's launch were still present in Windows 7.
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