I would also ban touch sensitive fixed controls. My father’s Avalon has dedicated controls for the HVAC but they’re touch sensitive, so you set the climate controls to 80C and full fan if you just wipe dust off the panel while the car’s on.
You should be able to train your hand on the control, get a good grip on it, and then move it in such a way that a control input is realized. It shouldn’t have to beep at you to tell you it’s done a thing.
I can turn the air conditioner in my pickup on and off by feel alone, same with the basic radio controls.
VW id3, maybe the whole id series, has this bullshit. I test drove the id3 a couple of months ago. Buttons in the wheel are touch, but you can push them as well which feels clunky. rant warning! Giant freaking screen that got mad at me for trying to adjust the ac while driving (supposedly I tap it too fast, and got a time-out). Stupid LEDs under the windshield that tries to communicate stuff by lightning up in either side or move across and shit, that was really confusing. It even had mood lighting. Wtf, in a car?!? Putting the car in sports mode, to get an idea of how it can drain the battery on the motorway, changed the mood from blue to red.
Stupidest fucking car I’ve ever driven. Went with a fully optioned zoe instead. 5k€ less for the same year, and actual buttons for stuff. Although I’d like to meet the engineer, who thought sticking buttons behind the wheel where they’re hidden, was a good idea.
I have a 15 year old car with a touchscreen. It’s not a capacitive screen, it’s resistive. That means I need to actually push a little bit to register a touch. It works great!
They even work with gloves! Of course, one could say “just turn up the heat”, but it takes a while to warm up the car. And heated steering wheel is still not a standard feature.
I would also ban touch sensitive fixed controls. My father’s Avalon has dedicated controls for the HVAC but they’re touch sensitive, so you set the climate controls to 80C and full fan if you just wipe dust off the panel while the car’s on.
You should be able to train your hand on the control, get a good grip on it, and then move it in such a way that a control input is realized. It shouldn’t have to beep at you to tell you it’s done a thing.
I can turn the air conditioner in my pickup on and off by feel alone, same with the basic radio controls.
VW id3, maybe the whole id series, has this bullshit. I test drove the id3 a couple of months ago. Buttons in the wheel are touch, but you can push them as well which feels clunky. rant warning! Giant freaking screen that got mad at me for trying to adjust the ac while driving (supposedly I tap it too fast, and got a time-out). Stupid LEDs under the windshield that tries to communicate stuff by lightning up in either side or move across and shit, that was really confusing. It even had mood lighting. Wtf, in a car?!? Putting the car in sports mode, to get an idea of how it can drain the battery on the motorway, changed the mood from blue to red.
Stupidest fucking car I’ve ever driven. Went with a fully optioned zoe instead. 5k€ less for the same year, and actual buttons for stuff. Although I’d like to meet the engineer, who thought sticking buttons behind the wheel where they’re hidden, was a good idea.
The Id3 and more specifically the Cupra Born are off my list because of the stupid steering wheel buttons, they are soo fucking bad.
I will probably go with a used electric Niro, saw a video complaining about how it has 73 buttons, I am like, awesome.
And temperature up/down and fan power should both be dials/rotary encoders, none of this “one push per degree/power level” BS.
I have a 15 year old car with a touchscreen. It’s not a capacitive screen, it’s resistive. That means I need to actually push a little bit to register a touch. It works great!
They even work with gloves! Of course, one could say “just turn up the heat”, but it takes a while to warm up the car. And heated steering wheel is still not a standard feature.