Elon's Fanbois

This Chinese guy made a panel of physical buttons connected to the control unit port in his Tesla. You have buttons for pretty much every major function. This device completely defeats the purpose of minimalism. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/hngjS7Fgq3

— Ray (@ray4tesla) October 19, 2023

You've got to remember that these are just simple fanboi. These are people of the EVs. The common clay of the new Automobile. You know... morons.While his fanbois may be less toxic than he is, which is about the only time I have heard of such an inversion, they are still amazingly toxic.

In China, the owner of a Tesla Model Y added tactile buttons to the bottom of the touch screen, and Musk's stans are butthurt.

Technically, this is pretty easy to do, the Tesla is designed to allow you to control most functions from your smartphone, either wirelessly or through a USB port, so mapping that to tactile buttons:

It's fair to say that Tesla started the minimalist, touchscreen-centrism fad that has inundated the auto industry. But the touchscreen tide is washing out again, and some Tesla owners are riding the ebb. In one case, a Chinese Tesla Model Y owner has installed a button panel to their car, and some of their fellow Tesla owners find the mod deeply offensive.

The installation was shown in a video from an unknown Chinese social media platform, which has since spread to Twitter. In it, a Model Y owner installs a plug-and-play button panel beneath the touchscreen, which controls functions such as climate control, door locks, and the trunk release. On top of letting the driver operate these (and other functions) without taking their eyes off the road, the row of buttons fits with the Tesla's design and color scheme, looking like it could've been factory-installed. All in all, a win-win.

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The poster himself is against the change, proclaiming "this device completely defeats the purpose of minimalism." Minimalism of course isn't a "purpose" in itself but an aesthetic, a form, not a function. This Model Y owner has made his car work better, even if it came at the subjective cost of what some consider to be compromising the car's styling. (Welcome to arguing about car modification on the internet, Tesla owners. Please take a stance on splitter guards in the comments section.)

Remember "Glassholes"?  The folks who wore Google Glasses, those dorky little head up displays in front of the eye.

They could start recording with little or no notice to the people around them, and soon people were demanding that they be removed in many social situations, and the Glassholes were just as adamant about keeping them on.

Musk fanbois, and to a lesser extant Tesla owners more generally, are this time's Glassholes.