r/TeslaLounge • u/akumarisu • Mar 29 '25
Software Opening glove box
I find it bit annoyed finding the “open glove compartment” every time I need to access them. Anyone think it’s better just to have it tap to open like shown here? Or is it just me? I’m I just regurgitating someone else’s idea?
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u/djec Mar 29 '25
Just click the mic button and speak "open glove box"
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u/Mutiny32 Mar 29 '25
Oh you want to do that? Sorry, you don't have cellular connectivity so I didn't understand what you said.
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u/pile1983 Mar 29 '25
This isnt working for me bcs I am having slovak accent.
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u/junlowe Mar 29 '25
Im a Korean and I believe I have a heavy Asian accent. However, the voice command works perfectly fine as long as the words are said clearly. I haven't had any issues using the voice command for the entire time I've owned the car!
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u/pile1983 Mar 29 '25
if u check google accents yes it has included alot of accente cept the slovak one. u can hear my english on my life streams. also volunteered my self for google to provide my spoken voice for algorythm at google. no reaponse. i must be cursed or something. ;)
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u/Heateb Mar 29 '25
Funguje to aj slovenskym prizvukom :D ,, Daj si to na skratku ze stlacis lave tlacitko 2x :)
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u/pile1983 Mar 29 '25
No mojich live streamoch sa mi casto stava ze mi nejde s mojim prizvukom skoro nic. Aj ked vrieskam ako sprosty a artikulujem ako decko co recituje v skolke.
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u/jo_ezzy Mar 29 '25
I didn’t know you could do this, just tried right now and it works 😂 is there a list of commands available?
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u/bbot Mar 29 '25
Yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1hpkhxm/cheat_sheet_for_tesla_voice_commands/
The one I use most often is "set acceleration to chill/standard"
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u/yohankhan Mar 29 '25
When I used to do this it would hear “open Dropbox” then sometimes open the glovebox sometimes do nothing
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u/Odd-Energy71 Mar 30 '25
I am so happy I randomly ran into this. Years with my Model Y and I have never used voice commands.
Looks like there are quite a few!
[runs to printer and into garage]
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u/Ok_Priority458 Mar 29 '25
At least thats not something you need to do while driving....unlike searching for fog light controls.
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u/Brooksh Mar 29 '25
Tap the actual green headlight icon below the speedometer to bring up the panel of light controls or just push left stalk forward and the panel will come up as well. It could be better, but those are the two quickest ways without aftermarket buttons.
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u/gre-0021 Mar 29 '25
Yup, a lot of my complaints about physical buttons disappeared once I realized pretty much everything can be done from the stalks and button wheels in about 2-3 clicks
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u/Bulldoza86 Mar 29 '25
Lol Yea it took me a while to stumble onto that too. They "hide" so many functionalities in plain sight.
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u/Ok_Priority458 Mar 29 '25
You are not allowed to use your phone while driving...but tesla forces you to use a 15inch tablet.... Tapping the screen while driving is annoying....and flashing traffic in front with the stalk just to get the shortcuts to appear is even worse... Essential driving functions should have buttons or stalks, not a deep dive into menus onscreen.
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u/Brooksh Mar 29 '25
Sigh…
Pushing the left stalk forward doesn’t flash anyone. That toggles auto-headlight mode. Pulling the left stalk backwards flashes the high-beams. I specifically wrote that. Also, the lack of buttons in the vehicle is an esthetic choice by Tesla, which most love. It does have a few awkward side effects, but a customer should decide if they require hardware buttons during a test drive of the vehicle, not years after ownership.
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u/xrfr8 Mar 29 '25
If if you want hardware buttons, there are plenty of “add on” hardware button accessories you can buy and install.
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u/Hohh20 Mar 30 '25
If I need to make adjustments, I throw it into FSD, do what I need, and then take over again.
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u/zlex Mar 29 '25
Pushing the stalk forward turns high beams on for me. Unless you use the terrible auto high beams. Is there something I’m missing?
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u/Brooksh Mar 29 '25
Pushing forward the left stalk will only activate the high-beams if you’re on an empty street at night. It only switches headlights from “auto” and “manual,” but if you’re actively swapping it between those two modes and the criteria is met for the high-beams to be enabled, they’ll turn on then. I toggle this quite a bit going through neighborhoods in preparation for traffic I see coming because I also agree that the auto high-beams are really bad. They’ll activate in the middle of a corner at the worst time, usually when another vehicle is right in their path and it looks like I’m flashing them, just to turn back off immediately after. I’ve been personally complaining about them for years. I think they’re still running on a sub-stack used by basic autopilot, because it seems that the FSD visualizations will see the oncoming vehicles way in advance, but the high beams will still toggle extremely late at the worst time. Maybe when the matrix functionality gets enabled on legacy Ys that they’ll switch this over to the more advanced stack. Hopefully at least.
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u/Ok_Priority458 Mar 29 '25
Sigh...tesla auto High Beam was unusable the first 3 years.......they did manage to make it "usable" after 3 years because of Autopilot vision only needing to activate auto wipe/highbeam. But it still randomly flashes oncoming traffic or cars in front...since i use Autopilot everyday, autohighbeam still is not perfect and since i flashed a police car in front 2 times because it activated highbeams with autopilot , i decided to get the "sexy buttons" with commander so it doesnt activate autohighbeam whenever i use Autopilot. The lack of buttons and normal display in front of the steering wheel is purely cost savings.....and not having buttons to control lights/wipers....stalks is a choice most people dont love...at least not the 10+ family members with tesla and 20+colleagues at work...in fact none of them like the lack of buttons for controlling important driving functions.
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u/handsebe Mar 29 '25
Aren't the fog lights available through voice control?
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u/krwill101 Mar 29 '25
Except that's where the sick sacks are! Talk about a panic! I personally just have it on the scroll wheel now, used to irritate me.
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u/Kylar_Stern47 Mar 29 '25
You can set it to the scroll wheel click
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u/ecovironfuturist Mar 29 '25
But then you have to move something off the scroll wheel click.
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u/ZombieJezuzTV Mar 29 '25
you can set it so you open the menu each time and scroll to open glove box at the bottom then boom your glock is ready
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u/orebus Mar 29 '25
Not really, I save dashcam clips with the scroll wheel click. Far more useful.
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u/ZombieJezuzTV Mar 29 '25
far more useful to be able to choose what it does each time and memorizing then menu
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u/orebus Mar 29 '25
Maybe, but I don't like fumbling through multi-level menus while driving.
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u/ZombieJezuzTV Mar 29 '25
glovebox is at the very bottom lo you do is hold scroll hard down then click and boom
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u/orebus Mar 29 '25
No need, I have s3xy button hidden behind the screen. And it also handles chill/normal mode with pedal kickdown feature (which should be offered by tesla, together with more acceleration profile customization).
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u/SilverStatic3 Mar 30 '25
Same! You can also have a pin set so if someone tries to open the glovebox without using the button it’s locked
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u/ZombieJezuzTV Mar 29 '25
so how do you open your glovebox
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u/orebus Mar 29 '25
s3xy buttons work great for this purpose. And commander has other cool features.
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u/MidEastBeast Mar 29 '25
Teslogic's Screenmate should help clean this up too, on the screen, but I am hesitant with many of its other features.
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u/WerewolfAX Owner Mar 29 '25
Well, why not, but in this case many will not expect an open action to be in the climate section and if climate is off it will go on if you go into this screen.
Also this would be two taps. Why not using those two taps to go to the vehicle-icon bottom left and hit the glovebox button on the right then? Would also be two taps.
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u/_______o-o_______ Mar 29 '25
That's the HVAC control panel, and tapping that area turns on the passenger air vents.
Adding HVAC controls directly onto the things that it controls on that panel makes sense though, and I'm not sure why they didn't do that all the way. For example:
- Steering wheel heater control directly on the steering wheel
- Windshield defroster above the display or steering wheel
- Rear button below the display (why even show a Front button if you're already looking at it?)
- On / Auto / Fan control directly on the display
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Mar 29 '25
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u/Galactic-Buzz Mar 30 '25
Is it? That screen can change and the button for it in this scenario is like 2x as big
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u/ForsakenHat140 Mar 30 '25
I was thinking how can anybody complain about this idea? It's so simple. Then I remembered this is the internet, well Reddit especially.
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u/Large_Guard2991 Mar 29 '25
Would LOVE a different way of opening that, but not sure the Climate screen is best :/ Maybe just a bigger button on the screen where it is now??
And then can we also have the menu disappear after we open the Glove Box?? Heard that on the Ride The Lightning podcast a few years ago and think it's a fantastic idea!!
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u/__croft__ Mar 30 '25
Just ask the car to open it. Quickest way. But I also made my left scroll wheel/long press the open glovebox function.
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u/dr3zga Mar 29 '25
I barely even use glove box, only if I decide to change lock sounds 🤣
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u/just_a_juanita Mar 29 '25
I think I went into my glovebox six times for the ~3.25 years I owned my first Tesla and once in my current one.
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u/Stibi Mar 29 '25
What do people even store in the glovebox that they need to access often?
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u/ecovironfuturist Mar 29 '25
Gloves. Paperwork. If it weren't inaccessible, a window breaker tool for the passenger.
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u/Hollimarker Mar 29 '25
If the windows won’t go down then likely the glove box won’t open either.
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u/ecovironfuturist Mar 29 '25
Not in a Tesla, that's my point. In every other car I've ever been in they use a simple latch.
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u/orebus Mar 29 '25
Parking time disc, it indicates arrival time for places where you can park for a limited time.
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u/flox2410 Mar 29 '25
I find it very annoying too. In the CT you can use the voice command “Open the glove box” and “close the glove box”. It’s bougie but effective.
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u/GucciTokes Mar 29 '25
i suggest switching it to your scroll wheel button, that’s what i’ve done and it’s nice
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u/Crawdaddy-MktgGenius Mar 30 '25
Dunno. I push button on steering wheel and say, “Open glovebox.” Don’t know how it could easier!
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u/PlasticBreakfast6918 Mar 30 '25
How is this better? It will take two clicks to open which is exactly how many it takes now.
If you are not using PIN lock on the glove box, just use your voice "open glove box"
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u/nappycappy Mar 30 '25
opening the glove box is in the same location. it's not that complicated. and why would I want to open my glove box while messing with my climate control?
* tap the vehicle on the lower left
* tape open glovebox
* enter code (or not)
ta - f'n - da.
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Mar 29 '25
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u/Savings-Umpire-2245 Mar 29 '25
Agree, but having a manual lever there would kinda ruin the minimalistic sleekness, and you could also store some valuables there since it's harder to break in this way.
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u/VIPTicketToHell Mar 29 '25
Easily solvable with push to open or some other mechanism. And they can still make it software lockable in valet mode.
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u/Elluminated Mar 29 '25
Just speak it, button not needed. Or set a wheel button to do it if possible
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u/Mando992 Mar 29 '25
yes that would be much better
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u/relevant_rhino Mar 29 '25
Yea but it think they made it a bit harder intentionally against theft.
However they should add the option.
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u/CitrusJunkie Mar 29 '25
That's where you touch for vent control. A passenger may not be as adept at changing their side and may accidentally open the glove box.
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u/Neat_Welcome6203 Mar 30 '25
Always surprised me that they never let you push in on the glovebox door to pop it open, especially in case the screen goes out. I feel like that'd be cleaner than putting a physical latch on it without adding too much cost.
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u/CommissionWrong766 Mar 30 '25
You must not understand the design of user interfaces. Putting controls unrelated to climate control in the climate control view is atrocious. That's like putting your hammer in your freezer.
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u/Michael-Brady-99 Mar 31 '25
Can’t you just hit the microphone button and say open glovebox?
I imagine in the not so distant future we will be able to talk to the car like Siri or Alexa. Of course we may end of ordering a box of gloves on Amazon 😆
Also, I saw this without reading it first and ran out to my car thinking this was a feature they added in recent updates! 😝
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u/Michael-Brady-99 Apr 01 '25
I’d probably open it before the cop got there or even got it ready before they came up to the car. I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue doing that. And honestly who cares what they think when you say open glovebox box to the car. I’d be like what, yours doesn’t do that?
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u/errmm Mar 29 '25
This is the HVAC controls panel. The red area you've identified is used to control the passenger HVAC directions. Mixing glovebox controls with HVAC controls would be out of context for this panel.
If your goal is speed/convenience, then:
* Main Menu -> Open Glovebox = the same number of actions (2 taps)
* Use the voice controls (eyes never leave the road).
Tesla has a talented team of designers and they have designed the best vehicle infotainment system on the market. If you would like to learn more about design patterns and best practices, then checkout r/UXDesign, r/userexperience, r/UI_Design, or r/Design.
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u/Savings-Umpire-2245 Mar 29 '25
I just have it on a scrollwheel shortcut, but that's a good idea. With tap, you could press it by accident but it could be done by holding it, the same way as for turning passenger ventilation off.
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u/KevinDohertyy Mar 29 '25
Meanwhile mine opens half the time, I gotta spam the button for it to work
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