I dislike how tesla kills situational awareness. It is the central touchscreen.
The model 3 and y and cybertruck put everything there - both status and control. You have to look to the side to see the speed of the vehicle, and the gearshift is on the touchscreen.
The S and X both retain a dashboard in front of you, but most of the controls moved to the touchscreen.
And the removal of stalks from all models have moved turn signals to steering wheel buttons, and most of the rest to the touchscreen.
I think the cars are really well designed, it is just that these user interface choices make you worse driver.
My 2024 Mazda CX-5 has a heads-up display and I quite like it. It presents in the windshield right above my hands on the top of the wheel, shows current speed, cruise status, and lane detection. I feel like I don't have to take my eyes off the road to get a speed update, it's nice.
I've had two cars now with head-up display info on the window. It shows speed, adaptive cruise control status, lane keeping, maximum speed, navigation info and warnings. I will definitely get it again on any future cars. It's so much easier than looking at the displays inside the car.
A small but well thought out safety future using the HUD is in the dark, when the car detects a pedestrian or cyclist on or moving into the road using the infrared camera it will show a yellow warning icon. Has shown me people walking in dark clothes on dark rural roads a few times far before I could see them myself. This is a video of the detection, mine doesn't have that spotlight, but shows the warning on the window instead: https://youtu.be/WpB8ZLGq7EE
I dislike how tesla kills situational awareness. It is the central touchscreen.
The model 3 and y and cybertruck put everything there - both status and control. You have to look to the side to see the speed of the vehicle, and the gearshift is on the touchscreen.
The S and X both retain a dashboard in front of you, but most of the controls moved to the touchscreen.
And the removal of stalks from all models have moved turn signals to steering wheel buttons, and most of the rest to the touchscreen.
I think the cars are really well designed, it is just that these user interface choices make you worse driver.