“Where to find the time of day changes depending on what [driving] mode you’re in,” he said. “The buttons that go through your six favorite channels don’t work if it’s satellite radio channels. It takes so many tries to hit one button in your jiggly car, and it just doesn’t work.”

Well, Woz. You’re famous for doing a universal control panel for another prominent piece of consumer electronics and figuring out how to interface it to lots of different brands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_remote

In 1987, the first programmable universal remote control was released. It was called the “CORE” and was created by CL 9, a startup founded by Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple I and Apple II computers.[2]

All you had to do then was to reverse-engineer the infrared protocols used to communicate with the televisions.

I bet that it’s probably possible to figure out a way to have a third-party control panel interface with various auto UIs. Like, build a universal interface, and then just design mounting hardware on a per-car basis? Use Android Auto or CarPlay, OBD-II, and such?

Can Android Auto do climate control?

kagis

Sounds like it doesn’t, but may start being able to do so:

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-climate-controls-3533161/

Android Auto could be about to turn up the heat (and AC) on car comfort

Climate control may finally be coming to Google’s in-car interface.

Android phones don’t have physical buttons for car features. But…that’s not a physical limitation. Just is a result of reusing a phone as a car panel.

So instead of having third-party car computers being the province of a few hobbyist hardware hackers, there’s an out-of-box solution for everyone? Make the “Wozpanel” or whatever that I just mount in my car? Stick physical buttons on it? Maybe have a case and faceplate that wraps it to match interiors?

The Woz has spoken. Ditch Tesla cars and buy something that isn’t owned by a nazi gremlin.

And he’s right. The Autopilot has not improved for the last 5 or so years. It rather has gotten worse. Phantom brakes are a nightmare and truly dangerous, the wind shield wiper is highly erratic and the lane departure warning is often just plain wrong and mostly annoying.

I really regret buying this car. And that is not even counting the disastrous image issues caused by the wannabe-Göbbels that owns the company.

Telsa stopped providing the data needed to be included in the J.D. Power reliability rankings after they went from near the top to 2nd to last.

Gettem woz