Using Cruise Control since 1987 in various cars I can't say that I'm impressed with the M3 Cruise Control... Now most of the times not using it anymore while in our 'old' Leaf using it all the time
Sadens me when I read things like this ...but fully agree. However, good news is that all the similar scenarios I can remember over the 4 years that I have driven Tesla have been fixed OTA (well ... there must be some that I have forgotten ...), so hopefully Cruise Control will be improved. Begs the question why that hasn't happened already though ... and why Testing didn't pick up that the initial design had snags (plenty of history on that for Tesla too ... they aren't the only software company to do "
Get it out the door, fix it later")
Original "graphic equaliser" was 3 sliders. Changed to 5 sliders in an update ... but ... then forgot all the settings when you pressed PARK <sigh> That got fixed a couple of months later.
Passive Entry became a thief's bonanza. Pretty sure it was only a couple of months until Tesla OTA'd "Pin to drive". Thieves then used the fingerprints on the screen to figure out the combination ... Tesla changed it so Pin-to-Drive pops up at random places on the screen. Meantime the likes of Merc have fixed it by selling expensive keyfobs that stop transmitting when they have been stationary for 60 seconds or somesuch.
and so on ...
But on the flip side some major overhauls of the screen layout have been hated ... and "Classic" has never been provided as a backwards-compatible option (and now Tesla are strong-arming anyone who hasn't upgraded by forcefully removing connectivity if they don't ...)
Brave New World.
. In fact most things on the steering wheel aren’t too obvious and overall, I find it a bit of a mess
I feel like that about the final BlueMotion Golf we had. Previous one had a dedicated Cruise stalk with the obvious/familiar movements to cancel/pause, engage, engage at current speed, nudge up/down either 1 or 5 MPH and twist for follow distance. That was replaced with (dedicated - so why not have a stalk?) buttons on the steering wheel and it took me a long time to remember how to do engage-at-current-speed (which from memory is labelled "reset" as in "reset to previous speed"). Pressing the up/down buttons to change speed is very laborious, just like Tesla M3, and the button contact is poor (obviously with a physical button I can glance at screen, see that it is set to 60, and thus eyes-on-road press the button counting from 60 to 70 .. but when I look down to check it almost never reached the goal). And follow distance? I could never remember how to adjust that, and its a full eyes off screen and try to work out if the image on screen is showing increase or decrease in distance. Between models they let Marketing have design of the screen ... the simple Compass showing N. NE, E, SE, S, ... got changed to a complete spider's web image and the devil's detail was thrown out with the bath water ... apologies ... still gritting my teeth all these years later