VW’s early MKVII touchscreen radio is among the very, very few I don’t want to take a hammer to. How did they go from that to the absolute hot mess they have today?

Red Solo car

Because the liability would be worth a lot more than the money they’d make selling them.

Bond is to make sure the defendant appears at trial. Are we especially concerned that this woman is going to skip out and make it to Zimbabwe?

The Mach E GT couldn’t sustain its power output originally. It was fast for a few seconds, but the power cut is perceptible. You can see the effects of the power cut in its quarter mile trap speed. The GT traps 101mph, while running a 12.7 ET. That’s the trap speed of an GR86, but 2 nearly 2 seconds lower ET. Even the…

That’s absolute boilerplate legal wording for this type of complaint.

“found in a nearby backyard hiding underneath a sheet of plywood.”

Now, the family is suing the driver, the salesman and All American Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram of Odessa.

I want touch-screen accelerator and brake and steering. Get rid of the mechanical interface completely. Make sure the screen lighting is so bright that night vision is completely obliterated and maybe have it off to the side where little animations can constantly play within peripheral vision to draw attention from…

Yeah, but Herb will burn this site to the ground before then, so nobody will be around to remind Andy of his youthful stupid takes.

It’s so odd, because when I see it in photos like this one it looks like a dumb station wagon, but when I see it in person on the road it looks way cooler. 

I have been a programmer/systems analyst for almost 40 years.  I didn’t get into the profession because “I liked computers”, I did it because I wanted to make them my bitch.  (And the money.  The money was damn good.)  When their input/output methods make me jump through hoops, it’s poorly done and totally misses its…

Going back to his reference, VW is going towards touch controls on the steering wheel too. There’s no feedback to the controls, and includes a slider for volume and cruise up/down. Sometimes the slider works just fine, sometimes it lags and the volume jumps up/down like crazy. Tell me unintentionally blasting the…

I absolutely can use a touchscreen. I am an actual computer hardware engineer, I can use any interface from a bank of programming switches to a command line to a Tesla.

I mean, 27. In 15 years maybe less, this kid will understand what the hell we are talking about.  Your night vision goes first.

Did you mean to post this on The Onion?

Those links seem to prove that touchscreens in cars are a problem. Sure they call out Android Auto and CarPlay specifically but that is because they are known name brands.

Buttons are the answer and car interiors are too complicated no matter your age.

I like a combination of hard controls and screens.

Ragebait will definitely get you clicks, but well thought of articles can too. I remember Jalopnik used to have some really good interview articles and investigate articles. Can we get back to that? I feel like the only reason I'm still here is the comment section and it's a hot or miss if that is even working.

You are just wrong. ANY extra interior lighting is going to cause your pupils to dilate more than they should and diminish your night vision. This is just science and not up for debate. A car interior should look like this at night, and I’d even say that they have the gauge brightness a bit to high even here.