Easy and rewarding to drive Instrument/infotainment screen easy to navigate Cons A Minimalist Interface That Works We're pretty sure Tesla's minimalist interior—which has but a single screen at the center of the barely adorned dashboard—was designed to cut costs, but as a user interface, it works well. Even with a lack of familiarity, we never had trouble figuring out how fast we were going or whether we'd left a turn signal blinking. Plenty of us have criticized the button-free, screen-only interfaces of other cars, and we still can't get used to Tesla's (and Rivian's) silly idea of adjusting air vents using a touchscreen rather than, y'know, the vent itself. Still, even the most tech-averse among us had little trouble navigating the system. Take, for example, Tesla's Car Wash mode, which we only know about because a sign at our local drive-through scrubber warns thatTESLA OWNERS MUST KNOW HOW TO ENGAGE CAR WASH MODE. (We've yet to ask about the mishaps that resulted in that sign's creation, but it's on the to-do list.) When it came time to wash the Model Y, we didn't see any obvious way to engage this feature, so we pressed the picture of a Tesla and typed in the Search box—C-A-R-W—and there it was, Car Wash mode. (For those wondering, it closes the windows and charge port, turns off the rain-sensing wipers, shifts to neutral and keeps the parking brake released when the driver seat is empty.) We followed the onscreen instructions and washed our Y with none of the drama that might, say, require a new sign. Our test Tesla did not have so-called Full Self Driving, the dubiously named, obviously unfinished software that allows some additional hands-free driving capabilities. It did have Autosteer, Tesla's lane centering system. Engagement is simple: Tap the column-stalk transmission shifter down (toward Drive) once to engage adaptive cruise, again for Autosteer. Speed is adjusted with a thumb wheel on the steering wheel, a setup that makes much more sense than tap-up/tap-down buttons. As for Autosteer, it does a decent enough job on straightaways, but in curves it frequently allowed the Model Y to drift to the outside of the lane before turning—rather alarming, and nowhere near as good as the lane keeping systems in many other cars, including Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis EVs. See All 33 Photos