Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoCan confirm, my car has the following cruise control buttons:
On/off - res/+ Cancel - set/-
The on/off button arms or disarms cruise control entirely. With it armed and no speed set, set/+ will set the current speed as the target speed. With no speed set, the only other button that does anything is the on/off button, which disarms the system.
With a speed set:
On/off will still complete disarm the system Cancel will remove the set speed, but keep the system armed Tapping the brake will pause the cruise control Res/+ will increment the speed by one mph, or resume cruise at the previous set speed if cruise has been paused Set/minus will decrement the mph by 1, or if held pause the cruise control until it’s released.
For the most part this works fine. I don’t use the resume function, like you said it can be a bit harrowing if you’re not certain exactly what speed is set, and my car is over a decade old - it doesn’t have that feature. But, critically, it’s not a fucking CAPACITIVE BUTTON, and I’ve never accidentally hit it once.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yeah. I use resume a fair bit because you can set it to the speed you want and if your cruising gets interrupted by a slow truck or roadworks, or by passing through a town you can just press it and the car will accelerate back up to the set speed. Not like a rocket, maybe a couple of km/hr per second.
But still, like you say, easily-triggered capacitive buttons for critical functions, holy shit that is a bad idea.