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March 25, 2021 01:25 am

How Tesla's Bizarre Swipe-To-Drive Gear Selector Works

Tesla's touchscreen-based gear-selector system, which is debuting on the updated Model S and Model X vehicles, has been revealed today. The Verge explains how it works: Tesla decided to remove the gear-selector stalk from the steering wheel and is going to try to automate shifting between park, reverse, neutral, and drive (PRND). The company said there would be an option on the touchscreen as a backup, but it wasn't until today that we had a sense of exactly what that looks like. Instead of touchscreen "buttons" for each drive mode, drivers will have to tap-and-drag on a small car icon on the top-left corner of the new horizontal touchscreen. (In fact, that car icon was visible in the photos Tesla released for the refreshed Model S and Model X, though it wasn't clear what it was for.) Drag up to put the car into drive, drag down to put the car in reverse. Neutral is buried in a deeper menu, though it's still unclear how you put the car into park. Perhaps since Teslas can operate without the slow "creep" of internal combustion cars (though there is an option to turn that on), you will be able to just stop the car with your brake pedal and it will stand still, maybe even switch into park when you get out. Now, according to Elon Musk, this is all just a backup to the car automatically switching gears for you. "Car guesses drive direction based on what obstacles it sees, context & nav map," Musk tweeted back in January. "After you drive without using a PRND stalk/stick for a few days, it gets very annoying to go back & use a shifter! You can override on touchscreen."

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