That’s a really good point. We rented a Tesla in the fall, and the nested menus were a pain. Some of them weren’t really intended to be manipulated in transit, and those were no worse than the nested menus say, inmy Honda. But it often took unnecessary steps to switch between things.
I agree, the big claim is how profitable Tesla is. How much more they make per car than others. Think about how automakers make decisions to scrape pennies out of a part. Well, if you can push this touch screen to not need any of it, and make the public accept it, you wiped out lots of small manufactured parts… good chance it will reduce cost. With no redundancy and reliance on a screen that will fail.