I can confirm. It's like using a supermarket checkout touch screen sometimes.
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figbat
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I had a go in the Cupra Born and was similarly baffled by the controls. Even opening a window can need two inputs!
Lee_M
Guru
You should try the mustang mach - e
Three button presses to change the air con, all touch sensitive screen so you have to look down to see where to tap, oh and you can't actually turn all the climate controls just off
Actually less - no switches to go wrong, and any issues can be fixed across all cars via an over the air software update. Tesla are masters of this.
Other manufacturers less so.
Grant Fondo
Guru
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Touchscreens are dangerous! Bloody awful idea so car makers can boast how huge their screens are, stupid car graphics spinning around creating additional distractions, my kids think its great of course ...
They're not the best, voice activation for basic things, radio, telephone, heating/ cooling and navigation. Tesla do all those.
When there is a passenger I let them do more complicated tasks with having all controls on a centre display
I see that but funnily enough my current car has never needed any software update, nor the car before that ! That’s progress though
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cougie uk
Guru
I can't recall of any switch failing in any car I've had.
Switches are cheap and easy to replace - and they are tactile. Easy to find. Touchscreens are rubbish for that.
figbat
Slippery scientist
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So in contrast to the clean Tesla, the Hyundai Tucson I am currently driving (insurance courtesy car) has had all the buttons loaded into a shotgun and fired at the centre console - quite a bit of scatter though as a lot hit the steering wheel too. And to make matters worse, they are touch buttons so you have to be as distracted and accurate with your jabs as for a touch screen.
My MINI has proper, physical buttons that you can lay a hand to easily, by feel and familiarity if necessary, and know if you pressed it.
My MINI has proper, physical buttons that you can lay a hand to easily, by feel and familiarity if necessary, and know if you pressed it.
The Mercedes EQS is a bit like that as well. Buttons for the sake of buttons and touchpads just in case you want to touch something.
Personally I prefer the Tesla approach. Two scroll wheel buttons on the steering wheel with a left right axis as well, and a touch button to open the door. DIdn't see any other buttons. Oh - one on the tail gate to close the boot.
dicko
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According to todays papers, MPs are lobbying the PM to re-think the 2030 deadline for petrol cars. How can anybody just pull a date out of thin air for the end of petrol car sales anyway?
It's not out of thin air but polluted air.
The banning of ICE should have happened a decade ago. But there was no one with financial might and vision to overcome the oil and legacy car makers.
Until Elon Musk announced Tesla
