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Touch screen is good for setup and info display but should not be used for active control while driving. Hiding the wipers or lights or temperature controls de

Touch screen is good for setup and info display but should not be used for active control while driving. Hiding the wipers or lights or temperature controls deep in menus is a flippin' disaster. Hyundai has about the right balance from what I have seen.

silisili 3y ago
IMO it shouldn't be a touchscreen at all. By nature you have to look at it to interact. Just have a nontouch screen for display purposes, and physical buttons to interact with it as necessary.
- doubled112 3y ago
  I can't put my phone in a cup holder and change songs at a red light, they'll take my license. Yet the car comes with a device I also need to take my eyes off the road and poke around at.
  - Tagbert 3y ago
    Which you don’t need to poke at while you are driving.
    - kube-system 3y ago
      Unless there are safety critical controls on those screens, which was the root complaint in this thread.
    - zerd 3y ago
      You've never needed to change the temperature while driving? Or turn on/off heated seats? Or adjust fan speed? Or turn on recirculating air?
  - jqpabc123 3y ago
    Yes, it's kinda comical isn't it. It's illegal to use your cellphone while driving in many areas --- so they built a cellphone UI into the car --- which is every bit as distracting and dangerous to use while driving.
mikestew 3y ago
Hyundai has about the right balance from what I have seen. Owner of a '23 Ioniq 5 here. Hyundai has struck a balance, but not quite the right balance. There are physical buttons, but they don't control the climate or seat warmers. In fact, one of my few annoyances with this car is when I use the physical volume button, my finger often brushes up against the capacitive "climate" button area, hence flipping on the heat when I just wanted to turn the podcast down. Now, there are the usual physical controls like wiper and turn signals, but that's not because Hyundai are paragons of control design, but rather because they're not idiots. And the complaints above are not that big a deal, as the "buttons" are right at hand. But with just a minor tweak or two, they could have done much better. And, as other commenters point out, it could be much, much worse.
- coldpie 3y ago
  Ioniq 5 is at the top of my list for when we go car shopping, probably late next year. Coming from a pre-touchscreen-era 2011 Mazda, I'm pretty nervous about the UI disaster cars have turned into these days. I wish Mazda would build a good EV, but it sounds like it's not happening any time in the near term.
  - bdcravens 3y ago
    Also consider the EV6, since they're the same platform (very much the same, though have a few UX differences, as I described in another comment)
    - coldpie 3y ago
      Cheers, will do.
  - mikestew 3y ago
    Oh, it's not so bad that I would not consider buying the car (like we did with VW). Day-to-day it's not a huge deal. If the auto-climate is already set to what you like, then you just hit the clearly-labelled, but-still-capacitive, "climate" button and you're done. And the voice control actually...works; what will they think of next? :-) But it certainly could be better.

silisili 3y ago

IMO it shouldn't be a touchscreen at all. By nature you have to look at it to interact. Just have a nontouch screen for display purposes, and physical buttons to interact with it as necessary.

doubled112 3y ago
I can't put my phone in a cup holder and change songs at a red light, they'll take my license. Yet the car comes with a device I also need to take my eyes off the road and poke around at.
- Tagbert 3y ago
  Which you don’t need to poke at while you are driving.
  - kube-system 3y ago
    Unless there are safety critical controls on those screens, which was the root complaint in this thread.
  - zerd 3y ago
    You've never needed to change the temperature while driving? Or turn on/off heated seats? Or adjust fan speed? Or turn on recirculating air?
- jqpabc123 3y ago
  Yes, it's kinda comical isn't it. It's illegal to use your cellphone while driving in many areas --- so they built a cellphone UI into the car --- which is every bit as distracting and dangerous to use while driving.

mikestew 3y ago

Hyundai has about the right balance from what I have seen. Owner of a '23 Ioniq 5 here. Hyundai has struck a balance, but not quite the right balance. There are physical buttons, but they don't control the climate or seat warmers. In fact, one of my few annoyances with this car is when I use the physical volume button, my finger often brushes up against the capacitive "climate" button area, hence flipping on the heat when I just wanted to turn the podcast down. Now, there are the usual physical controls like wiper and turn signals, but that's not because Hyundai are paragons of control design, but rather because they're not idiots. And the complaints above are not that big a deal, as the "buttons" are right at hand. But with just a minor tweak or two, they could have done much better. And, as other commenters point out, it could be much, much worse.

coldpie 3y ago
Ioniq 5 is at the top of my list for when we go car shopping, probably late next year. Coming from a pre-touchscreen-era 2011 Mazda, I'm pretty nervous about the UI disaster cars have turned into these days. I wish Mazda would build a good EV, but it sounds like it's not happening any time in the near term.
- bdcravens 3y ago
  Also consider the EV6, since they're the same platform (very much the same, though have a few UX differences, as I described in another comment)
  - coldpie 3y ago
    Cheers, will do.
- mikestew 3y ago
  Oh, it's not so bad that I would not consider buying the car (like we did with VW). Day-to-day it's not a huge deal. If the auto-climate is already set to what you like, then you just hit the clearly-labelled, but-still-capacitive, "climate" button and you're done. And the voice control actually...works; what will they think of next? :-) But it certainly could be better.