People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars
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People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit…::People are dissatisfied with the technology in their cars, according to a new survey from JD Power. They especially don’t like the native infotainment systems.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some proposed design principles:

    1. It’s a car.
    2. It’s not a goddamn TV.
    3. It’s not your goddamn ads platform or subscription service.
    4. It is, however, a piece of life-safety-critical equipment.
    5. Because it’s a car, the driver wants to deal with car stuff like driving, navigating, fuel, roads, obstacles, and not killing people.
    6. They also want to make it passably comfortable by messing with the heat or AC, the fans, the windows, and the fucking moon roof.
    7. Messing with your phone while driving is Actually Illegal these days in civilized parts of the planet. This is for good reason: people get killed that way.
    8. If the car requires messing with your phone, or messing with something that is basically your phone, then you have failed.
    9. There should be a big knob with a fan icon on it. Turning this knob all the way to the left causes the fan to turn off all the way. Turning the knob all the way to the right causes the fan to turn on all the way.
    10. If I ever have to use a touchscreen to control the side mirrors, I will become an extremely unhappy ape.
  • weedazz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Just give me a screen for Android auto and that alone. Everything else should be knobs, especially climate controls

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Moving parts cost money and wear out.

      And if there’s one thing the auto manufacturers are good at, it’s cutting costs.

      • Iamdanno@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Touch screens break and wear too, and it’s more expensive to replace a touch screen than an AC fan knob.

        • PixTupy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Unless it happens during warranty, that costs money to the user not the manufacturer.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    I have a 2009 Mazda 3 with Bluetooth connectivity and steering wheel button activated voice commands to make calls, configure the phone book and connections etc. This was the sweet spot for technology in cars in my opinion. Oh but the best part is all the dials and LCD clock are all in red light which is wonderful when driving at night.

    Everything else I do via voice commands on my smartphone that’s mounted on a phone mount on my dash. Like asking for GPS navigation, playing music, sending text messages.

    Nowadays the car infotainment system is trying to reproduce what your smartphone already does with controls that are less intuitive.

    Also, what’s the deal with all the bright white and neon blue colors lighting up everything? Can I get a red filter for night driving maybe? Is that so hard to ask?