Where I come from, when you come across some problem on the road that poses a danger to drivers and/or will significantly slow or even stop traffic on a highway, you get the hazard lights on posthaste. This can not only save approaching drivers from becoming part of said problem, it also reduces the chances of you bein…

Maybe you are just unlucky or I’m just lucky. In my 44 years on this Earth, I don’t think I have been in a situation where I needed them much less urgently.

Good step, but i would add temperature and seat heating to that list, and make any other climate controls always available. What lexus is currently doing in their newest cars is as touch-based as I would allow cars to go. And docking a star isn't enough. This tesla touch nonsense needs to be BANNED

So you need commonsense controls to get a 5-star rating...works for me.  Especially since manufacturers aren’t about to increase their costs by building a button version for the Euros and a screen version for us.  IE: global trade helping us also.

100% this.

HVAC (including heated seats / steering wheel), turn signals, wipers and frequently used stereo controls should ALWAYS be physical buttons. Any items that drivers interact with on a regular basis should be physical buttons / stalks. It’s like we want to move to everything automated / touch-based, but then realize that…

So they STILL haven’t gotten better??

I’ll raise you one: Blob-era pickup trucks

idk...I think the mid-90's Taurus was the blobbiest of them all.

I don’t know what Mercedes was on in the early 2000s, but it was Ugly then, and it’s ugly now: Mercedes Kompressor c230

The “new” Honda Accord looked 30 years old the day it debuted.

The blob generation of cars. And if you need a specific example, the Hyundai Coupe is probably one of the worst of those.

This will scare you, but sometimes we leave our own borders. Mad eh?

When it’s 20°F outside and your range falls to 125 miles, it matters.

I can’t speak for the vast majority. But for myself, we regularly travel around 250 miles one way, to locations that do not have charging infrastructure, and we don’t have time to wait for a level one charge.

It is ok to think of your automobile as an appliance.  For most of the general driving public your car is a way to get from point A to point B.  We don’t all have to be enthusiasts.

It’s gotten SO much worse. Look at how the Odyssey (gen3) and Sienna (gen2) used to be:

I would easily confuse this with a slightly older Honda Pilot from a distance

I am siding with the school on this one. It is not a public school - it is a private school with membership.