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> I don’t mind a touch screen for GPS Yup, it's basically the only time when I use the touchscreen in mine: I start the car, enter the GPS coordinates/address

> I don’t mind a touch screen for GPS Yup, it's basically the only time when I use the touchscreen in mine: I start the car, enter the GPS coordinates/address and then I control everything from my steering wheel, using buttons with real feedback and without needing to take neither my hands off the steering wheel nor my eyes off the road. My car also happens to have a gimmick: "voice control / voice command" but it's only good when you're alone in the car. As long as there are people talking, it sucks. It also interrupts the music and I hate that. I do use it once in a while but I'm not a big fan. Touchscreen sucks and those who don't even have haptic feedback: I don't even have words for that. If I recall correctly there as least one major japanese car manufacturer who decided to get rid of touchscreens a few years ago. Good ridance, it's a poor system.

dv_dt 5y ago
The car ui’s to get to car play usually make me want to poke my eyes out. Car maker supplied GPS is terrible too. Just give me car play and Siri or the android equivalent.
- dafoex 5y ago
  I generally like car UIs (I'm a fan of glossy things rather than flat things) but no amount of polish will make the layout not suck. Its usually designed for left hand drive cars and clusters common actions near the wheel, but won't change when you're in a right hand drive, causing you to lean across the centre console to use it. Android auto (and I'm hoping Apple's equivalent) mostly handles this amazingly, putting common functions actually close to you. Its not all good, though. The Skoda Karoq has this split personality thing going on where it comes with its own sat nav, and that tries to take over your experience when you start navigating in Google maps. Its only a (first world) problem when you have the overly fancy glass cockpit, but it likes to replace your speedometer with a full screen map from the internal sat nav, which has none of the information from Google such as your next turn or the blue line showing your route.
  - FDSGSG 5y ago
    At least in the UK there's no point in driving a RHD vehicle unless you frequent McDrive or some very strange parking garage. UK insurance is really terrible, getting European insurance for a RHD vehicle will be a pain in the ass. It's better to just not bother, it's not difficult or dangerous to drive a LHD car in a RHD country.

dv_dt 5y ago

The car ui’s to get to car play usually make me want to poke my eyes out. Car maker supplied GPS is terrible too. Just give me car play and Siri or the android equivalent.

dafoex 5y ago
I generally like car UIs (I'm a fan of glossy things rather than flat things) but no amount of polish will make the layout not suck. Its usually designed for left hand drive cars and clusters common actions near the wheel, but won't change when you're in a right hand drive, causing you to lean across the centre console to use it. Android auto (and I'm hoping Apple's equivalent) mostly handles this amazingly, putting common functions actually close to you. Its not all good, though. The Skoda Karoq has this split personality thing going on where it comes with its own sat nav, and that tries to take over your experience when you start navigating in Google maps. Its only a (first world) problem when you have the overly fancy glass cockpit, but it likes to replace your speedometer with a full screen map from the internal sat nav, which has none of the information from Google such as your next turn or the blue line showing your route.
- FDSGSG 5y ago
  At least in the UK there's no point in driving a RHD vehicle unless you frequent McDrive or some very strange parking garage. UK insurance is really terrible, getting European insurance for a RHD vehicle will be a pain in the ass. It's better to just not bother, it's not difficult or dangerous to drive a LHD car in a RHD country.