2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test

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• kardax Posts: 8

  February 2014

  Wow, this article's been sitting on the shelf for a while. 14,000 miles versus yesterday's with 18,000.
  
  As for the topic at hand, weak black levels are depressingly common on LCD panels at all but the highest price points...

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• nintendomaniac Posts: 5

  February 2014

  This is actually something I noticed early on before the car was even "fully released", but I'm also OCD about black levels (I still use a Trinitron CRT as my PC monitor!).
  
  I would thought that, considering the premium target market, Tesla would have gone for OLED for the displays. Perhaps at the time of manufacturing OLED was still too expensive even for Tesla? Alternatively, because the screen is ALWAYS on while driving, any persistence and long-term lifetime issues would definitely make themselves known.

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• duck87 Posts: 649

  February 2014

  This would be really distracting at night.

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• stoneymonster Posts: 28

  February 2014

  duck87-
  
  That photo seriously overstates the problem. It's fine at night, really.

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• duck87 Posts: 649

  February 2014

  @stoneymonster: Sure. Doesn't mean it can't be improved. But since this is Tesla, it's perfect out of the box, right?

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