• stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    I have a 2021 Seat Leon, basically it is a Golf with a Spannish design, almost everything apart from actually driving the car uses touch controls, with one exception, media can be controlled by buttons and a roller on the steering wheel.

    It is really annoying and countries need to regulate that the following can’t be touch controls:

    A/C Temp

    A/C Fanspeed

    Heated rear window

    Heated wind screen

    Heated seats

    Exterior light controls

    Media volume

    Media play/pause

    Media previous/next track

    Engine mode (Electric/Hybrid/HybridCustom)

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      This has been a gripe of mine for a looong time and not just in cars. For fuck sake, my fucking oven is touch screen and has wifi. why?

      Every time I wipe it off, it thinks I’m touching 37 buttons and it overwelms the CPU, and the system restarts

      Never again

    • iwilljustforgetEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Aside from media related options, why wouldn’t you want all of those to be automatically controlled?

      • mp2English
        11·
        1 year ago

        Have you ever driven a car before?

        • iwilljustforgetEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes. Nice cars that automatically handle these functions for me. I wouldn’t ever want to go back pushing buttons when it can just happen when it’s supposed to.

  • smokingManhole@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    Volkswagen’s return to physical buttons is long overdue. Imagine causing a car accident because you’re distracted by a touchscreen, unsure if you pressed the right thing. Touchscreens became popular in cars because the market blindly follows the majority’s whims. Present the touchscreen versus button issue to most people, and they’ll choose touchscreens, misled by a lack of technical understanding. In their minds, old equals buttons, new equals touchscreen, and therefore, touchscreen must be better. They fail to see the bigger picture or care about this crucial design flaw, dismissing it as trivial.

    This is just one of the many ways a market driven by majority preference results in mediocre solutions, never reaching the best possible option. And those who genuinely seek the optimal solution are left suffering the consequences, outnumbered by the masses who don’t realize the impact of their uninformed choices.