Tesla Model 3 interior as seen at the reveal event – notice centre screen & absence of any instruments in front of the driver. Notice too, the zero in the top left of the centre screen, which is a speed display.
Credit: @steve_cars/Twitter
Since the Tesla Model 3 reveal, there has been speculation about the 15" landscape centre screen & the possibility of other instruments in the production vehicle. One popular suggestion has been a head up display (HUD). With the benefit of hindsight, the engineer driving the prototype in my post about the Model 3 reveal was committed to the advantages of the centre screen & eliminating instruments in front of the driver.1
Recently, Elon Musk placed it beyond doubt in a Twitter exchange:
@nickg_uk No
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017
@nickg_uk @chouky02 You won't care
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017
“You won’t care”? – Elon Musk makes it clear that it doesn’t mean a HUD, but it does imply something in the user interface that will overcome objections to the absence of a speed display in front of the driver.
If, as the owner of a production Model 3, you do care, there are many existing add-on HUDs, including:
“15 Best Head-Up Displays (HUD)”
http://www.crookedbrains.net/2016/04/best-head-up-displays.html
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1 HitchHiker's Guide 2 Tech: “Tesla Model 3 event (video)”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2016/04/tesla-model-3-event.html
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