I'm pretty convinced that the next time I purchase a car the primary selection criterion is going to be strongly based on the usefulness of its user interface.
I have been driving Hondas, a couple of Civics, a couple of Fits, and now a CR-V, for decades, and they have proved reliable, handled well, and done their job until corrosion took them down. However, as we have evolved into digital controls and instrumentation and integration with phones, I spend too much time irritated at the behavior of those systems.
Some complaints:
I have been driving Hondas, a couple of Civics, a couple of Fits, and now a CR-V, for decades, and they have proved reliable, handled well, and done their job until corrosion took them down. However, as we have evolved into digital controls and instrumentation and integration with phones, I spend too much time irritated at the behavior of those systems.
Some complaints:
- TPMS that doesn't show actual pressure in each tire. So the light comes on, no indication of what wheel, nothing to tell me rate of leak, if any. Grrr...
- Presumption that one has a crApple phone. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
- General integration with (Android) phone: No device connected... Connecting... No device connected... Gotcha... (finally plays some music)... On to next cut, but continues to display info for third cut back...
- Text comes in. Display announces such. Listen. Now need four button presses to get back to audio display.
- XM, Sirius, all that crap. If you want to build it in, fine, but let me make it invisible, and fuck fishing calls from the companies.
- Radio in general - I don't listen to radio anymore. Go away, I only use my phone.
- Half a dozen press buttons, rather than two knobs, for HVAC - rather a big distraction to peer and punch the correct control to turn off defrost. Three clicks CCW is easy to remember.
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- If TPMS detects an issue, immediately display pressure in wheel with problem.
- Equal support for crApple and Android.
- If I choose not to use a feature, let me set it so it never displays in common use menus.
- Do not give my contact information to any sales/marketing entity.
- Eliminate arrays of push buttons.
- Allow use of rear facing camera when driving forward.
- Provide paper or PDF manual for specific model, not "* applies only to model x".
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