Interior of ID 2All concept shows how Volkswagen is responding to criticism about over-reliance on touch controls
push pause to brake. play to go.
Rewind to reverse.
that big round one in the middle of the console must be to post to your blog.
Wordpress can post to the Kbin now, so this is officially the first Kbin enabled vehicle.
Mazda does it right. Not only are there plenty of physical buttons for everything you would commonly use, the infotainment screen is not a touch screen. There is a knob in the center console which acts as a sort of “mouse” to operate the screen options.
My 9-year-old Subaru has physical buttons. The car still ignores them when it’s busy “thinking”, like leaving the sound blasting at whatever volume setting it was on previously, but now with a different song, and there is nothing I can do to shut it the hell up for like a minute or two while it finishes booting up the OS.
Pro-Tip: “Physical buttons” don’t have to mean a damn thing.:-(
Edit: I do like the tactile feel of them though.:-)
That’s one of my 3 complaints about my wife’s 2018 Subaru:
- It takes over a full second to shift into drive.
- The clock shows you the date but not the time when you start the car. You know, the one time I literally always look for the clock to see if I left on time? Yeah. No clock. (Seriously, what the what? Why?)
- You can’t turn off the radio when the car is starting. (For a while I thought it was while reversing, but I think that’s just because it’s the first thing I do every time I turn in the car after my radio-listening wife has parked.)
Other than those three problems, it’s a great car.
It has physical buttons in the steering wheel for most functions, so this article isn’t very relevant. Sure, you can’t adjust your front-back speaker volume while driving, but you shouldn’t be doing anything that involved while driving anyway.
Absolutely. Overall the Subarus are the best designed car I’ve seen - I would change those few things, but it’s a small list and they are very minor.:-)
