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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] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

But, critically, it's not a fucking CAPACITIVE BUTTON, and I've never accidentally hit it once.

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.