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Shame that A/C isn't on the list, I find it so annoying trying to hit a small spot on the screen while moving.
I'm pretty stoked that the AC on the slate is manual. I just hope it's not a POS :)
name a US-designed and built vehicle not a POS.
The Model T was pretty groundbreaking.
It's been a long incestuous line of automotive crap. This is something new that has chance (albeit small) to be simple and durable.
The Chrysler Turbine.
Does your car not automatically turn the a/c on and off based on temperature?
Not a single car I've had has gotten the auto temperature control exactly right. It's quite normal for me to set it to 16 or lower in the summer and 24 or so in the winter, but in addition to that, I'd usually have to adjust after like half an hour of driving because now suddenly the 24 is way too hot.
Climate control (not the AC button, but the system in general) is probably the one non-essential feature I touch the most in a car, with infotainment being second as I tend to just set it and forget it (radio generally).
how am I supposed to adjust the set temperature if it's in a sub menu on a touchscreen that's in the glare of the sun and keeps timing out before I can adjust it because I have to keep taking my eyes off the road?
inspired by true events. drove 20 minutes in a friend's car in the heat without being able to adjust the climate controls
Oh that's one of the biggest low severity annoyances: timeouts set to stupid short times. When I push buttons navigating to a certain area, the device can fucking wait for me to be done in that area and tell it to go elsewhere, not assume that 10 seconds of inactivity means I've wandered off and forgotten about it or something.
I have a toaster oven like that, though that's not even the worst part of the UI design. It's a great oven but clearly the interface was designed by someone who lacked either care or competence because you have to scroll through a bunch of useless presets for if you have some specific portion of chicken or want to burn a slice of pizza, and of course it has no memory, even if you stopped it while trying to pause it to check your food. It would have been better with an analog timer and a mode knob ffs. And if you hesitate too long while setting the mode, time, and temperature, like if you need to grab the box and then do the math to convert to convection toaster oven time and take more than 12 seconds, it's off by the time you go to enter it.
Oh and I can only guess at what some of the modes are because the icons they use aren't very descriptive. Is that the warm setting or broil?
It's a stupid design for a toaster oven but extra fucking dumb for a car.
Assuming the car is toasty hot when I get in, I probably want to set the AC to a lower target temp than normal to get it cooling faster. This would necessitate changes later once the cabin has reached a more comfy level.