My car is a 2024, and thank fuck it has knobs, dials, and switches.
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Infiniti has the best center stack of all cars, and that's a hill I am willing to die on. Screens for navigation, radio, and car settings, with physical buttons along the sides for common HVAC, etc controls.
I haven't driven an Infiniti in about 20 years, but I like the fact they stuck with physical controls. I rented a new Peugeot that was 100% touch screen for everything including changing from park to drive. I almost got in a wreck because I had to reverse out of the way of a distracted driver pulling out of a parking spot and the touch screen wouldn't let me go from drive to reverse, i had to click park first. Anyways, I have a whole laundry list of modern smart features that make me feel like I'm fighting my vehicle instead of driving it. I'm not a fan of lane assist and auto off at traffic lights.
Everyone insists to have HVAC controls as physical buttons. How often do you mess with them?
I set up my previous car to 20C when I bought it and it was at 20C when I sold it. Same with the current one, which has touch screen control. It heats the cabin in winter and cools it down in summer. If it's very cold or very hot, it automatically blasts on max.
What am I missing?
Directing hot or cold air around the cabin and on to the windows when you come in from the rain and everything fogs up.
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Dreading the day my car dies. I want more volume on my music? Turn a knob. Need to turn it off and focus? Slap that same knob. Weather got nice out and I want to let the air in? Spin another knob. Never have to take my eyes off the road.
Though my only experience with modern cars and their touchscreens has been 2-5 interactions to do any of the above. All on a touch screen so you have to look away from the road for it usually.
Just FYI: Both volume and turning music off can be done from the steering wheel in any car manufactured in the last 10 years. In some others (not many, tho) you can map the HVAC on the steering wheel too.
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Mine's mostly set on 22. When I feel cold I bump that up to 24, 26, maybe even 28. When I've done at the gym (multiple times per week) I want cooling down so I turn it down to 16 or 14.
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I don't want to drive a smart phone or have it drive me. Give me a car with a pre iPhone dash and Bluetooth and I am happy. I am hoping there will be a market for old people cars with real controls when the vehicles we drive now are no longer maintainable.
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Ah, the old "How hard do you want it, how hot do you want it and where do you want it?" climate controls.
There were and are the best.
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Yup yup yup. I'll die before I buy a car with a touchscreen. I'll get my damn motorcycle license first.
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Agreed
I recently had the brief joy of driving a small car without power steering. I never realized how much nicer the feedback is. You'd think that it would be a nightmare to park but the size of the car meant that it was still easier on the whole.
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It is funny how car lovers pretend that cars aren't just some blip in history that has existed for barely a human lifetime as a form of transportation for the masses.
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Maybe if we didn't put computers and cameras in our cars they wouldn't be so expensive
The worst part about it it that these screens are most of the time worse than a 100 dollar ipad, and unresponsive and janky as hell. The cameras are so cheap that they are also used as fpv cameras. Some of the very cheap ones sometimes still had the green and red lined that you see on parking cameras. But since it's in a car, it makes it 10k more expensive. The worst fucking car entertainment system i have ever used was when a friend of my dad bought a Maserati and asked me how it works. I couldn't figure it out, for the first time ever, i had to look at the manual. And even then, i have no idea who was responsible for that shitty ass ui, it was absolutely disgusting and made by the only guy who knows how it works.
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Change is scary lmao
Dont lean into getting old too much, you cant go back.
Touch screens with a hundred options will become useful when we start traveling between star systems and need to react to things in minutes or even hours at time.
But when you're driving a vehicle that can run into things within milli seconds if you take your eyes off the road .... we're still going to need tactile buttons.
I prefer voice controls to either, but don't have a strong preference between physical or digital because I end up looking either way. Subscriptions on the other hand can fuck right off.
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Funny enough, when I purchased my car, I went with the last model that didn't have the computer screen in it. The last of the actual BMW car cars. No iDrive or screen. I fuckin love that car.