For anyone who wonders why people like Teslas, despite all the bad press and public failings - it's because a lot of this "small stuff", the subtle UX touches, is done very well in Teslas.
Yeah. It's not that Tesla never shipped issues like this, either. The difference is in the over-the-air updates. They have consistently fixed these kinds of annoyances. Annoyances that on any other car you'd just have to live with for the next 10 years.
Mine is a completely different car than when I got it in 2019, with far more features and fewer annoyances. Really the only annoyances left are the ones where software can't fix hardware design issues, mainly the awkward door handles and the lack of a sensor for the automatic wipers.
You can adjust volume from the left scroll button on the wheel.
I was driving around last week in a rented Kia very similar to the target of the article's rant, down to all the listed warts (DING! DING! DING!). After getting used to Tesla's set-and-forget approach, I found having to fluff around with the temperature controls manually quite annoying.
