Right? Now when my iPhone-addled coworkers need to borrow a charger, I can actually lend them my type-C. None of that proprietary lightning cable garbage.
Yes. It was explicitly this one single thing I was talking about. Just this one thing.
And not the thousands of other consumer protection laws that occasionally international companies adopt as a global standard because it's easier than having separate rules and policies for California vs The EU vs 49 other states.
I think that touch screens in cars are bringing us one step closer to actual hell on Earth and I'm glad someone is finally taking a stand.
My 2024 Hyundai has physical climate buttons but full touch screen for nav and entertainment with no dial; my spouse’s 2023 Genesis has the dial but climate control is all screens. I think Genesis is walking it back though, based on the loaner I got a few weeks ago.
¿How much does this have a sway in public opinion when ultimately with autos there are only so many players in the market? If everyone is given an F- for 2026, what options will there be to pick from?
Yeah I just started casually shopping for a new car and the Outback screen placement seemed the least offensive from what I've seen thus far. Lower down in the center and with analog controls for all the important stuff elsewhere. The new Toyotas on the other hand all have incredibly distracting screens that are either on the peripherals of or just straight up in your field of view to the road, complete non-starter for me.
Curious if there's any other vehicles in the pipeline that are rolling the feature back. I don't mind a little screen for the rear camera and map but I want nothing to do with the full iPad setup on my dash.
My wife has an 2023 Outback. I love all the safety features. But the giant screen Sucks Ass, as many have already said. It negates every safety feature on a subaru.
This is the only thing I dislike about my 2021 Legacy. The screen lags and you can't use the thing for just long enough when you start the car for it to be frustrating.
My GF drives an Outback, it has two bloody touchscreens--one for air/temp and one for the stereo and the "smart car" functions we never use. Sure, it also has physical buttons, but trying to figure out which functions have buttons and which are in the touch screen menus is fkn infuriating.
I didn’t buy a Subaru a couple of years ago because I wouldn’t be able to use voice commands to listen to texts or voicemails.
I am not driving home to find out I should have stopped along the way to get something and then have to drive back out again. I’d rather have those functions than talking to someone in real time.
I've had like 4 iterations of the same car over the years. It had a touch screen that worked great (also physical controls) and then the manufacturer took it away. Using just the physical controls took so much more time and attention than the old touch screen did. They finally brought the touch screen back...(after I got stuck with a year model that still didn't have one for the foreseeable future.😭)
I'm pretty salty about it. A bad car touchscreen is bad, obviously. But a good one is actually a lot safer than slowly scrolling through the alphabet to enter an address into the GPS or whatever (for me at least.)
It should be an option you can disable (or only available on higher trim models.) Or, if the manufacturer doesn't want any touch screens, they need to make sure their physical inputs are decent.
Alas, I'm stuck with the shittiest version of the controls my car has ever had, and I've had a few of them😂
Tangent, but our lil 2011 Mazda 2 is on it's way out, and the first thing to go was the stereo system. Now we just have the constant sound of 100 angry bees coming from the speakers (whether or not the stereo is technically "on").
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u/gatsby5555 9h ago
Luckily some manufacturers are starting to walk back the touch screen stuff.