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Well fortunately Tesla is releasing it in 2018, when the entire world uses touch screens every day for all sorts of operations.

Best of luck with that assumption.   Even highly trained professionals fail at the technology interface: AF 447 is one recent example.  

AF 447??? Are you referring to the Air France crash?

Touch screens: My wife and some of her friends, incl. their (older) husbands, have serious issues at using touch displays. No kidding. Many other people as well, even if they use them (many hate touch displays).

Yes.   Read the transcript of the BEA’s investigation sometime.  Primary Flight Displays received erroneous data from ice covering the pitot tubes used to measure aircraft velocity.   The stall alarm sounded and the pilots reacted to address the perceived stall. That set up the acts by the pilots that finally killed the plane.   It was a series of events, each recoverable that led to faulty decisions by the pilots as well as faulty ergonomics-the flight control joysticks are decoupled.  One pilot continued to stall the aircraft by pulling back on the stick as the other pilots struggled to analyze the situation with incomplete information.   If the pilots practiced standard operating procedures and flew the plane according to fixed throttle settings and angle-of-attack they would have had a much different outcome.   Non-uniform control behavior coupled with deficiencies in training caused the crash.

How does this tie-in to the Tesla display discussion?  Non-standard controls, means to access those controls, and lack of experience with the functionality lead to operator error issues.  This is why other automakers are slow to introduce new technology; it isn’t the inability to do so at the design level, it is to prevent user issues   Not every driver is 25 years old and technology savvy.

What's next, comparing Tesla radio and climate control to the ISS? Gimme a break. You're comparing operation of an airplane to a car.