I seldom drive our BMW X1 - but had to do 180 mile drive today. As I was driving, some things about the UI bugged me, and I was LMAO about our pickiness here. See these two pix:
1) IC is all out of whack. In the center is time and temperature. Except, 90% of the time at stop, they are not there. The car has engine shutoff at idle, but there are about 5 conditions under which it doesn't work, one of which seems to happen ALL the time. So, whenever you stop, you see the "shutoff off" warning signal where time and temp should be.
2) Below that, there are choices, most useful being remaining range. But the computation is worthless. It is like projected range based on last 5 miles in Tesla's energy app. Interesting, but very difficult to draw conclusions from. Unlike rated range, which I know how to net up or down based upon what remains in my drive.
3) Rather than being front and center, the speedometer is to the left. I'm right-eyed, so lots of good that does me. Plus, the gas gauge is left as well.
4) On the right is a tach, with the ICE equivalent of immediate kW gauge below. A tach? In an automatic transmission car? Waste of space. Sitting in the right eye dominant position. Well, maybe I can switch it to another display? Nope, no options for different apps in the IC!
5) So, I look at the 17" and it's not there, of course. See next pic. Just a bunch of buttons and knobs. Radio/entertainment is series of menus with single strip, single color LED readout. Yikes! I don't use this car enough to remember how to use it. So, I don't.
6) And what's that slot above? For a CD? Honestly, this 2013 car is 6 months NEWER than my Model S!
And, beyond that... any time you turn the driver's wheel, it cuts out much of the IC. Also impossible to adjust for both comfort and full visibility of IC when centered.
To top it off, I will NEVER get a UI change or improvement on this car. NEVER.
Tesla would have to do something much, much worse than swap the energy bar with the ODO to lose my continuing appreciation.