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It truly is bizarre - I've driven a lot of cars lately and this exact BMW shifter took the cake of the most unintutitive and annoying to use by far. (And it's n
by izacus 4y ago
It truly is bizarre - I've driven a lot of cars lately and this exact BMW shifter took the cake of the most unintutitive and annoying to use by far. (And it's not even the most dumbass UX decision in that BMW by far.)
- RedShift1 4y agoI don't get it. All these joystick gear selectors work the same. Push and hold a button and move it to the setting you want. What is unintuitive and annoying about this?
- gonesilent 4y agoChrysler's attempt at a reimagined shifter killed Star Trek's Chekov. Couldn't tell when it was in park...
- sgt 4y agoThis type of technology has to work even when you have a "weak" moment of lapse in judgement. Everyone has those, at the very least a few in your adult lifetime.
- izacus 4y agoAh sorry, the 1 series I just drove also had an "unlock" button on the left side so you had to hold it in a rather unnatural way to get it to move around. And the separate "P" button is also something that kept throwing me off. In comparison, Mazda I drove had much much simpler approach - grab the stick, push it all the way forward for Park, push it all the way back for Drive. That's it. The "unlock" button was under the index finger so you just grabbed it naturally. (In general, Mazda felt much better thought out inside than VWs, BMWs and MBs I drove.)
- t0mas88 4y agoExact opposite experience for me, I can use this thing without looking and it does exactly what's expected. It also does manual shifting the right way around, pull to shift up, push to shift down. That's how every sequential racing gearbox works. But somehow a lot of non-sports brands do their manual control the wrong way around.
- IgorPartola 4y agoSame. I used to have a BMW with this shifter. It was the most intuitive car to drive of all that I had driven. It’s like the controls melted away around you and you could just focus on the drive. That car died a bad death when someone else drove it into a telephone pole and I still miss it. I know different people have different expectations for UX but for me that BMW had few of none UX flaws.
- timc3 4y agoSame here as well. This age of BMW was known for having a great UX, from the computer system to the drive controls.
- wrycoder 4y agoYeah, you push it forward to go backwards, and pull it backwards to go forwards.