A friend was teasing me the other day for using my mirrors while I backed up, ignoring the various screens and camera feeds dotting the dash. I reminded him that photons impinging my eyes reflected off the material world at the diffraction limit of the visible spectrum remain much higher fidelity than some shitty parts-bin screens.
Plus those rearview screens are always horribly bright. You know what has infinite levels of dynamic brightness? Light bouncing off a planar reflector.
So much of modern cars is cost savings and poor design decisions dressed up in the name of modern - but ultimately resulting in UX worse than an early 2000s Honda.
also, I WANT A PRNDL (drive select stalk). Even though they overloaded it with autopilot, I think the older model 3/y version was great. Removing it was dumb.
An super-easy-to-locate hazard light button (required by law) would be nice. Not out-of-the-way.
Why can't they just ask the us faa or us military - they have a century of experience with critical control design and placement that don't kill people.
Car manufacturers do too.
but not ∀ cars or ∀ manufacturers and not ∀ cars of any manufacturer
I miss those so much! Here's John talking about ending them in 2015 https://hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed where he said "Someone else can pick up the baton for the next 15 years" - but sadly nobody even came close.
Also different people use the same car at different times, etc.
Because sometimes it is hot.
I want more cold air blown on me at a higher velocity until I cool off, and then to be a steady state. Even if I had remotely started my car with air conditioning, which although my vehicle has the capability I never do, the seats and steer while and other things I touch will be hotter than the ambient air temperature and make me feel hotter until the car has been moving a while.
So is the only one in the list that is actually EV specific? It also has a direct counterpart on an ICE vehicle so even it doesn’t count.
The physical key triggers an electronic switch. There's no mechanical link. There's no way at all to enter the vehicle if the battery dies. Which is problematic because you can't charge the battery without accessing the hood release inside the electronically locked cabin.
The Nissan engineers must have been smoking something great that day
While we're at it one thing to add: Keep your turn signal at an on-off pattern.
I don't wan't to have to parse your cute turn signal animation. It's a warning light and should be somewhat irritating/eye-catching.
If you want to add cutesy features then have the turn signal automatically synchronize blinking with the car in front/behind it. People would love it.
On my 2019 Model 3, a stress fracture showed up overnight and everytime I look up I see a 3000$ fix for a car that is worth 10k max.
I have no idea who wants it. It is hot in the summer, cold in the winter and you can have a sudden bill related to a rock on the street.
Somehow everyone, from Tesla to Ferrari has this insane design decision and for something that only makes sense in a very small part of the world.
Please stop.
Hyundai, Ford, etc have it as an option.
Just a nice metal roof that won't make me expend more electricity for nothing would be nice.
Natural light makes the driving (and passenger) experience much more pleasant for me.
It’s a good car in the sense it’s good at car things, even some EV things - but dear Lord is Toyota bad at making software.
The software is consistently unreliable, unstable, and feature incomplete- which they still have the gall to charge for.
Had to do a bit of digging to disable the OnStar tracking though.
The top of the list is "Maintain a constant (vent) fan speed".
With all the EVs I've tested, if I want to get warm air on my face at a consistent speed ... it's just not possible. "Auto" is disabled, I've set the fan at a certain speed, and set it to blow only in the top vents. Dial up the temperature, and the fan speed can drop markedly.
Such a simple thing that's worked for decades. And they've made my driving very uncomfortable. I've had an EV for only a few months, and I keep thinking of trading it in for an older Honda. I've installed a USB fan, but ... why? Why am I paying so much more to get an experience I hate?
Take the mirror thing. Yes a good mirror is great. It's the gold standard for 2026. I can totally envision a 2030 world where an artificially stitched together view of what's behind you dramatically outperforms a simple what can mirrors and angles do. A stitched together hybrid view possibly enhanced with other AI overlays is going to outperform normal users.
This is happening..OPs views on stupidity are not gonna stop it
My partner enjoys ambient temperatures about 3°C warmer than I do
Depending on which of us is currently in the sun, or which of us is alone, you need to vary it quite a lot in summer
In winter, you want the AC for defogging but not on otherwise, which is even more fiddly if you don't just leave it on permanently and use like 10% more fuel
And that's assuming climate control works. It doesn't in any car that I've ever been in. The car doesn't want to sound like an airplane at lift-off once the temperature goes 2° above the set point, while I may just have come from a long walk and am super warm and want this blast of AC air. And then after 5 minutes it gets chilly and maybe I want it to cool the car instead of blowing at me directly, or maybe I just turn the loudness down. There are so many permutations... I suspect we may be built differently if you are happy with a single set point!
Animats•40m ago
The powered charger port door would make sense if there were robot chargers that used it. Tesla demoed that, but people disliked the snake robot approach. Technically, a snake robot is ideal for that, but too many people fear snakes and tentacles.
Rear view cameras are better than rear view mirrors. The field of view is better.
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aaomidi•29m ago
Cameras will prevent a lot of unnecessary property damage, and more importantly, fully mitigate risk of killing humans/animals that are behind the car and outside the field of view.
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cmrdporcupine•11m ago
The various cameras on my polestar2 are routinely getting caked in salt and dirt in the winter 30 seconds after I start driving down the road. I fail to understand why I'd want this for a critical system like rear or side view mirrors.
I drove in a Polestar4 with its rear view camera only view the other day. Did not like. Would not want as my only option.
I did drive in a Bolt that had dual mode and that was fine.
BeetleB•8m ago
Rear view cameras are useless when mud/rain get on them. Mirrors continue to work just fine.
Try living in Seattle.