3 ms·
Hear hear. And stop messing with the steering wheel. I don't want 17 trillion buttons on a steering wheel. The "safe" area seems to be getting smaller and small
by fleddr 5y ago
Hear hear. And stop messing with the steering wheel. I don't want 17 trillion buttons on a steering wheel. The "safe" area seems to be getting smaller and smaller.
As for worst car UI experience ever, it has to be the Seat I'm driving. It has a large touch screen. So you decide you're going to touch an option and your finger is under way to the surface. During this movement, the UI detects you're going to press something and tries to "help" you by moving some sticky menu out of the way or the opposite: revealing some hover menu. So now the thing you were planning to touch has moved during the 0.5s travel.
The car is also in constant paranoia mode it seems. I'm parking forwards at about 1mph, slowly approaching the end of the lot, a boundary of shrubs. The car apparently thinks I'm close to dying. Everything is flashing and buzzing.
It also has a helpful planning system. I'm in the middle of a huge traffic jam and then it tells me "busy traffic ahead".
It has a navigation system where you can pick from 3 routes: fastest, easiest and some mysterious in-between option. Yet all routes lead to the exact same navigation instructions, it feels like somebody just made up the 10 minute "difference" in the UI.
When driving this car, I sometimes have this feeling that the makers are laughing at me as I drive it, to see how much you can mess with somebody before they understand they're the subject of a joke.
But this is no joke. I'm really quite sure that crappy car UI leads to injury and death. A car is not a Battlefield game that needs 2 years of bugfixing before it's usable.