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guywithahatlast Tuesday at 10:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Too many vehicle manufacturers removed buttons to copy Tesla without thinking about why Tesla did it in the first place. Tesla removed those buttons because they were aiming for a low-cost driverless future with full self driving and automatic updates that change the feel of the car. If you put those features in a VW that doesn't regularly update and doesn't have consumer self driving program (at least yet) it doesn't really make sense.


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AlotOfReadinglast Wednesday at 1:37 AM

Tesla's lack of buttons long pre-dates any sort of ADAS feature development. Here's the interior from their 2009 Model S prototype:

https://i.redd.it/ahxh0bmh7ka11.jpg

The first version of autopilot that did anything that could charitably be called navigation wasn't introduced for another 8 years after this car and actual self-driving remains a distant goal 17 years later.

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