VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough

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• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And I’ll continue complaining about stuff, nothing will stop me, not even getting what I want!

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The squeaky wheel gets the greese!

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  • girl@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as my dad would say, “you’d complain if you’d hung with a new rope”

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• Agent_Engelbert@linux.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine paying the same price for a car that lacks the technology of:

  • Smart screen

  • • With heat resistant materials that are designed to resist high temperatures and still function properly (i.e in summer times)
  • • With GPS features, and media access

  • But the screen still sucks because you can literally buy a magnet and stick your phone there, and still be able to do literally everything a smart screen car do.

  I mean id still buy it because I prefer cars that are not so impractical, but it’s a shame that it still costs practically the same.

  Conceptually, a smart screen sounds like a good idea, but the implementation is bad.

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• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A great reminder that your voice does matter. Apply it other things as well, and things can actually improve…

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• jayandp@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reason why I love my Subaru is that it still has buttons for almost everything, yet still has Android Auto.

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  • Pavidus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why I chose Mazda. No touch screen at all, just a display for Android auto.

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    • KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      my 1st gen yaris has a space for a 1din radio, but there’s a 3rd party frame that lets you get rid of the casette player (you read that right) and allows for a 2din radio.

      buy one of those pioneer radios, throw some blaupunkt widebands in there, and i have a top of the line entertainment system.

      i want to drive that car forever…

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  • time_fo_that@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not the new ones. They’re all touch screen and it’s soooo slow to start up and do anything, including HVAC and heated seats. My friend’s new Outback has it and it’s not good.

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    • GeminiFrenchFry@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a '22 Crosstrek and most options are buttons with a large screen I use with Android Auto. I would hate HVAC and heated seats integrates into the screen because I love mine being buttons, switches, and dials. Plus, I can control most of the screen features from my steering wheel.

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• kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A big part of why I chose my Mazda is so I didn’t have touchscreen everything.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and to add insult to injury, I couldn’t turn the heater on countless times because the climate portion of the OS was unresponsive. Other times, it would simply say that the function couldn’t be performed at the time. Why? No idea.

  This is the main problem, not something about the UI being wonky. That my AC can freeze not because of the radiator but because of a shitty UI system? That’s insane.

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• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank god. End this shitty touchscreen fad. I have problems reading things too close, so the buttons/knobs in my 10+ year old car are a lifesaver.

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• GutsBerserk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if people who took the decision to put the touchscreens even drive.

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unpopular opinion: Unresponsive buttons are just as bad as unresponsive touchscreens. And touchscreens are not bad if you don’t have 5 keys presses to get what you wan, if you can customise your layout and if the system is not underpowered as they always seem to be.

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  • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t know what buttons or touch screens you have in your care but in my car it’s way easier to hit the button than the exact location on the touch screen. You can ‘feel’ your way to a button on a dashboard, you can’t do it on a touch screen.

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  • bort@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    haptics of a button means that you can keep your focus on the street while pressing a button.

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• rauls4@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Main reason I canceled my ID4 reservation

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yellow? give us a screenshot of what you see.

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  • Lennnny@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t eat it.

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, they care about what we want? That doesn’t sound right.

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  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    VW really actually does care a lot. It’s just early market data on EVs (because Tesla cheaped out) pointed to people liking the screens. Now that ordinary people are going EV there is a lot more feedback available on this being a bad idea.

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• WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if they can also make a vehicle not near the bottom of the reliability rankings next?

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol, careful, you’ll waken the VW mob. They don’t like to hear what garbage VWs are.

    Can’t give me one.

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    • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It appears there has been a few that caught this. I was surprised they were so far down the Consumer’s Report list for reliability as it was but honestly I don’t really think of the brand that much as it’s something my parents owned when I was a little kid then they moved onto Toyota and domestics.

      It’s not to say others are better. I’ve was surprised by Ford’s decent down the list but not by Jeep’s continued place down there and I’ve owned many Jeeps.

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• aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • because they sell really bad, even in germany

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• gogogadgetfork@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  VW has made a lot of bad decisions

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• d3lta19@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now only if I could complain enough that my recall on my Atlas gets the passanger air bag fixed. Got told in April that nobody can ride in the passenger seat because the air bag might not deploy. Still no ETA on when a fix will be available. What a BS company.

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  • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I gotna letter from Toyota that says I will get another letter later because the car might be dangerous for my health and safety without saying what it is and now I have to drive my car not knowing what could happen.

    It’s been more than a month and I still don’t have any other letter with information and/or resolution.

    Thanks Toyota, I already am a very anxious person and now I have to rrive everyday with the knowledge my car has something dangerous to it but don’t know what.

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• noname_yet2077@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good news

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• Locrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yet the model Y is the world’s most sold car. Maybe it’s not the touch screen that is the problem.

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  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure where you get that data but according to Statista the top selling car is a Toyota corolla. Tesla model y is on the list but at #4.

    Touchscreens probably aren’t the deciding factor in a purchase but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a problem for users. People just have to decide what features they are willing to compromise on (assuming they have a choice, and touchscreens increasingly are unavoidable).

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    • Locrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Current year of course.

      www.focus2move.com/world-car-market/

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  • nowwhatnapster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a Model 3 owner of 5 years, it’s really a non issue, in my opinion. All the basic controls you need while in motion are on the steering wheel. The touchscreen is responsive and intuitive.

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• n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now if they’d just sell the baseline Golf or wagen Golf in Canada, I’d consider buying another VW!

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• nafri@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Progression is regression in this issue, thanks people!

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• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I bought my Tiguan the dealer was pushing really hard for me to get a 2022 which has just come in. It was the first year to have capacitive steering wheel buttons. I told them to find a 2021 or I’m looking at something else. I think the car market was still a little slow at that time so they made it happen to get a sale.

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• kashara@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why have you said that VW is Putin?

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  • elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a bad joke

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    • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your mom is a bad joke

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