I feel that pressing "park" should be idempotent. If I press "park" twice in my car, I don't want to drive away once I get out. Tesla really needs a dedicated "start autopilot" button to make the intention to use the feature explicit.
Yes, apparently the fact that this feature was activated was messaged on the instrument cluster, but that shouldn't be sufficient to absolve Tesla from the liability of this poor UI decision.
Especially when considering, as mentioned upstream, Tesla's UI can have significant latency issues. "Several seconds" to display a confirmation (or actually a "Cancel") easily means the difference between a catching of your breath and several thousand dollars damage or worse.
It does sound like there could be an improvement to the interface here but to be fair it is a parking mode and ran into a problem due to the specific environment it was started from. In a normal parking situation it would have understood its environment and not had an accident. There are many special cases that are being learned from every day by having some autonomous features in use by the general public.
> Yes, apparently the fact that this feature was activated was messaged on the instrument cluster, but that shouldn't be sufficient to absolve Tesla from the liability of this poor UI decision.
We're talking about a company which has installed a flat glass control panel in their cars — they clearly don't care about UI/UX.
Yes, apparently the fact that this feature was activated was messaged on the instrument cluster, but that shouldn't be sufficient to absolve Tesla from the liability of this poor UI decision.