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People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit…::People are dissatisfied with the technology in their cars, according to a new survey from JD Power. They especially don’t like the native infotainment systems.

MrBungle ,

My biggest gripe is the “safety” features that just enable bad driving. Too lazy to shoulder check? don’t worry, blinky light on the mirror has you. Don’t bother looking back when backing out? camera has you. veering off the road a bit cause you’re not paying attention? lane keep assist!
Any one of these things can fail and the shit driving habits are all some of these people have to fall back on.

Let’s go back to roll up windows, standard transmissions, and using your eyes to see where things are.

ramjambamalam ,

The ads for emergency braking are the worst, like the dad who is looking in the rearview mirror at his daughter, and then Screeeech the car slams to a hault because pops wasn’t paying attention. Everyone in the car has a sensible chuckle about it, and they go on with their day.

No: are you crazy? Wtf are you doing? You almost ran over that woman! Pay attention!

Locrin ,

What a bad take. These things are safety additions and will by responsible drivers be treated as such. Backup cameras are standard safety equipment now, do you also hate those? Shitty drivers will be shitty with or without safety precautions from a car. When one of those shitty drivers attempts to change into my lane while not checking if it is clear. At least I can hope their car prevents them from smashing into me.

MrBungle ,

That’s fair. I can understand your view.

derpysmilingcat ,

I think you forgot that people have cell phones so those who were already couldn’t drive now can’t drive with a cell phone. And they’re driving giant cars. I need their car to scream at them because I can not.

MrBungle ,

Yea. I’m diligent about the phone staying in my own pocket while I’m driving. I forget I can’t always give others the benefit of the doubt.

zxo ,

If something like the AC, gear switching, volume controls, or another essential function is only usable via the touchscreen, I’d just stop considering that car because it’s unsafe and time consuming to use touchscreens in cars. They’re right, too much tech in cars is very annoying and I think most people (like me) would rather have dedicated physical buttons to control most actions in a car.

boonhet ,

Oh shit you unlocked a memory for me.

Can’t find it right now because I’m at work, but I believe one of the “Real People” ads from Chevy that Zebra Corner parodied on YouTube, had a person literally say they like modern car tech because it lets them “look less at the road”, which is boring.

I mean sorry, but wtf?

Geek_King ,

My prior car had no fancy features, the nicest thing it could do was read MP3’s burned on to a CD, and hold 6 CDs in the player. I traded it in and got newer car, and I think it’s level of fanciness is just right for me. It has a screen, I ignore it most of the time, unless I plug my phone in to listen to music. Then I use the screen to get into Youtube Music and that’s it. Or the same situation as before, but I need to navigate with Google Maps.

So by and large I can 100% ignore the screen, unless I plug in the phone. But all control of Next Track/Back, volume up/down is controlled by buttons on the steering wheel.

The largest nightmare for me is tough sensitive controls FOR EVERYTHING! I’ve read that it’s becoming more and more common in new expensive cars, and I have not interested in that bullshit.

m3t00 ,
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useful technology has been neglected for years. simple thing like autostart and remote warm up/cool down have been outsourced instead of built in. some brands are light years ahead with apps/monitoring and people are figuring that out.

cpo ,

I used to be a techie, but my Nissan leaf of 2018 does not seem to work with Android auto for more than 20 seconds.

And then there is the native system. It’s ugly, it’s slow. And it does not even update.

This is my last Nissan…

dunestorm ,
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The only tech I want in my car is satellite navigation, Bluetooth audio and Bluetooth calling support. Anything else is fluff.

Getawombatupya ,

Reverse camera is nice, too

bob_wiley ,
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    dogslayeggs ,

    I read an article about how much gas it saved over a long period of time and it was a trivial amount.

    Nearly every article I can find says they save around 3% with air conditioning on when it’s warm and around 10% with AC off or when AC isn’t very active. Saving 10% of fuel is really good over the life of a car. Saving 3% isn’t much over the life of a car for you, but it’s huge when multiplied by a few billion cars worldwide.

    Froody ,

    The only app I need is Android auto or a decent equivalent. Heck I don’t even need on board GPS. Just let me plug in my smartphone and have it display everything on the car’s screen.

    BigilusDickilus ,

    I have a 2023 Tuscon and I love it. The car drives incredibly smoothly, the handling is amazing, I spend about $30 a month on gas total (hybrid), it practically drives itself on the highway, and its a super comfortable and spacious interior. That being said, I do wish it had more physical buttons on the console, I think they are going back to that in the future, but I can easily live with how it is now, I just dont really fiddle with things while I am driving.

    DeanFogg ,

    Digital touch screen ac controls make me furious

    asparagus9001 ,

    I’ll be praying for you when the wave of recalls start coming out

    99nights ,

    I’ve never ever had the chance of experiencing it. My car is over 23 years old by memory, still runs great as Toyota’s do but damn I’d love to have something more then a broken CD player and strip black and white interface.

    Perhaps I’d be one to appreciate all this ‘useless’ tech.

    scottywh ,

    There are extremely affordable aftermarket head units available that are also pretty easy projects to install even for a novice DIYer.

    99nights ,

    This is very true and I actually forgot about this lmao because my wife insists that we just wait until we get a new car…

    scottywh ,

    I’ve replaced lots of them over the years myself but was just recently reminded (forcibly) that it was an option… Because my factory head unit in my Kia died and originally I bought an identical factory head unit to replace it with… Well, that one burned out in like 3 months…

    At that point I bought the cheapest double din head unit I could find with FM and Bluetooth along with the mounting kit… Only spent about $70 and an hour of my time and it’s been working great for the last 6 months or so.

    Obviously, that particular option won’t work for everyone but it’s been great for my cheapskate ass.

    99nights ,

    That’s good to know.

    Blamemeta ,

    The problem is that backup camera’s are mandated safety equipment, and that means a screen. And if you have to put in a screen and all that infrastructure anyway, it’s only a few more dollars to add a proper infotainment system.

    HeyJoe ,

    I lost the key to my car since last August and just found it a few months ago. Car needed a bunch of work since it had some problems and just got it back on the road this week. They finally canceled work from home so I needed the car. I have been using my wife’s since we both really didn’t need it much at the same time. Anyway my car is an 07 basic model car and hers is from 2015 and has a backup camera. Going back to my car is crazy just because of how used to the backup camera I had gotten. I immediately look to my center console area and go oh yeah… I then wondered just how many people have the issue of going backwards with car technology like I did!

    dogslayeggs ,

    I’d had backup cameras in my cars for 6 years, and my girlfriend’s car that I drive a lot has one, too. My current car is a 2011 work truck with roll up windows and no power locks. It has AM/FM with no tape, CD, or screen for a backup camera.

    I definitely miss the backup camera going from her car to my truck.

    Kecessa ,

    Backup camera and more buttons than you’ll ever need

    cars.usnews.com/…/2016_volvo_xc60_dashboard.jpg

    I love my car.

    vaultdweller013 ,

    Okay a bit off topic but am I the only one who thinks that car companies are hiding bad design with back up cams? Like I feel like thats part of the reason why cars are getting bigger, cause they don’t need to make everything easy to see from the drivers seat.

    dan ,

    I wish my car’s interface was more minimal.

    I don’t mean removing knobs, knobs are good. Hiding things in 5 level deep touchscreen menus is not minimal.

    I mean… removing visual noise. Removing unnecessary lights. Streamlining controls. Taking away indicators that aren’t important.

    My dashboard dials are now a screen, why can’t I have an option just to display the speed and nothing else? Why do I need to see 4 dials, two driving modes, and some other crap all the time?

    There’s a separate screen for the satnav, why does it need to have permanent menus displayed on it? Or visible buttons? Road names? Status indicators for various settings? I want an oled with a black pixels-off background, roads in gray, and my route in white. Nothing else. Not using the satnav, turn the screen off.

    Why do I need a perpetually scrolling display showing the name of the current song? Like sure I want an interface to choose music, but I don’t need to see it all the damn time.

    CarPlay is better than most native infotainment systems but it’s far from perfect in this regard.

    StarDrek ,

    Yeah my 2013 Honda has Hondalink, whatever the heck that is and an outdated GPS system which I refuse to pay to upgrade. I typically buy a five or six year old honda which I don’t look forward to next go round, bc I’m sure the tech will be woefully outdated.

    soulifix ,

    I don’t see why my vehicle has to tell me what song is playing through my IPod, on the screen where the wheel is, that displays more important information like tire PSI and speed. The bigger screen is more than sufficient.

    pacoboyd ,

    I just went through the car buying process the other day and it was between a Odyssey Luxury or EX-L. Honestly I hated all the space age dash shit they tried to cram into the Luxury version so I went EX-L. Was definitely one of the deciding factors exspecially considering it cost 10k more for basically only tech upgrades that I would never use. Ridiculous.

    The_v ,

    I just bought a car for my son last month. Things I looked for:

    No major issues or recalls on the model for 5 years. Especially no major powertrain issues.

    Easy to drive and control the vehicle.

    Big mirrors and windows to make it easy to see behind.

    Comfortable seats for driving long distances.

    AWD or 4WD for our winters.

    Android auto on the screen. Buttons and knobs for all important vehicle controls.

    The number of cars that failed to have these features was terrifyingly sad. I saw some of the dumbest designs on car interiors while test driving as well.

    The most egregious was a couple of vehicles that put major vehicle controls (knobs) right next to the cup holders. Somebody has never spilled a soda on their keyboard.

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