{"id":12594,"date":"2015-10-19T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2017-01-10T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:09:49","slug":"teslas-os-7-interface-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/teslas-os-7-interface-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla&rsquo;s OS 7 Interface Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukew\/status\/656175989773328384\">Luke Wroblewski<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukew\/status\/656175989773328384\"><p>Tesla goes flat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tesla-os-7-has-serious-usability-problems-combined-with-a-hit-from-the-ugly-stick\/\">Corbin Dunn<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tesla-os-7-has-serious-usability-problems-combined-with-a-hit-from-the-ugly-stick\/\">\r\n<p>However, even more important are the <em>analog gauges<\/em> indicating your speed and power. At a quick glance you can instantly see your speed by looking at the blue line on the left. You can quickly see if you are speeding; the blue line turns to a white line once you past the known speed limit. The known speed limit is a beautifully thought out small white line. Now, with the new user interface you are <em>forced<\/em> to read the digital speed number, and mentally interpret it. You then have <em>read<\/em> the digital speed limit sign, and  think if you are higher or lower than this number to know if you are speeding. The old interface was even step better; it would flip the battery meter over and show you the speed limit at you once you pass through it. This subtle animation draws your eyes attention to it subtly alerting you to the fact that you are speeding.<\/p>\r\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\r\n<p>The new [power] gauge is much more difficult to read, and I&rsquo;m not looking forward to my next long distance trip. And where are the yellow dashed limiters that we used to see on cold days?<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>The layout of the dashboard and controls is one of the most important parts of a car. The idea that this would change&mdash;regress&mdash;after purchase is frightening.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Wroblewski: Tesla goes flat. Corbin Dunn: However, even more important are the analog gauges indicating your speed and power. At a quick glance you can instantly see your speed by looking at the blue line on the left. You can quickly see if you are speeding; the blue line turns to a white line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1167,77,31,469,1295],"class_list":["post-12594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-car","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios7","tag-tesla"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12595,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions\/12595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}