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touch-sensitive controls in vehicles need to be outright illegal. All controls, regardless of how esoteric, should be operable by feel.
Also on stoves. "Oh, you wanna turn off a burner? Sorry, your fingers are too wet. Also, I hope you remembered to read the 300 page manual because we've never even heard of intuitive controls"
The controls on my stove are those weird flat buttons you'd see on a lot of late 90's appliances? Like they don't "press" at all but they do respond to pressure so I could preheat my oven with the end of a spoon or something. Those are superior to capacitive touch controls.
Also, every car should use standardized bays for things like the stereo. Like, seriously, why can't I upgrade my car stereo anymore?
We've had that, it was called 1DIN/2DIN, kinda like the 19" racks but smaller
I have a Citroen Berlingo and everything except the Android Auto stuff is operated by buttons. What cars don't use buttons? And for what features?
My dad's Toyota Avalon has a touch screen for the infotainment center, and the climate controls are a touch-sensitive panel rather than mechanical switches. Which means if you go to wipe dust off the dashboard, you fuck up the air conditioner settings. I don't know what's worse, all the touch controls, or all the chrome on the dashboard scientifically aligned to glint sunlight into your eyes.
Speaking of, the trend of absolutely blinding headlights should be outlawed. It's especially bad for those of us who drive tiny sedans and live in the US, where seemingly every other car on the road is a lifted F350 with the headlights pointed straight at eye/side mirror/rearview mirror level. There have been more than a few times where a car coming towards me or sitting on the other side of an intersection at a red light has blinded me to the point where I literally can't see anything else. Recently at a stop sign, I couldn't tell if the truck across from me was about to go or not, and I was needing to turn left. They are SO fucking dangerous. And yet, cops will pu people over for having shit hanging from the rearview mirror, or for a big enough crack in a windshield?? We have our priorities so fucked up.
Also that type of reflective tint on back windows that makes the sun go straight into your eyes when driving behind someone who has it. Wtf is that and why. I had no idea that regular window tint needed to be "improved" / re-engineered.
Teslas and cars that are trying to copy Tesla (Mustang Mach-E for example.)
Literally every EV
My car is a EV so not every. So your saying Teslas don't have buttons for example?
Tesla is the worst offender.
Well apparently some company had to try this on the vehicles ๐คฃ