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Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I own an ID3 and it's got the same capacitive bullshit steering wheel. So far I've only managed to accidentally fuck with the audio by brushing the right side of the wheel during a turn, but it's really scary that those cruise control buttons are right there with the potential to be fucked with at random.

Luckily I've learned to be pretty well aware of the adaptive cruise control suddenly deciding there's a different speed limit on the road than what's actually there, so maybe I can manage to catch any accidental fuckings with the buttons too.