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Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
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Re: Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mazda disables touch for Android auto and carplay and I think that's awesome. The wheel is much better to use.
I have never driven a Mazda but I watch a lot of car reviews. It seems to me they're the only car manufacturer that gets car interactions right. They actually have a philosophy how human-cars should interact and design everything based on it. Hence everything comes natural and consistent and logical.
It may sound strange but UX is main reason why I drive mazda. I have no other requirements (besides basic safety).
Re: Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
#93I like it. It means if someone breaks into the car they can’t get into the glove box. Also, with a Tesla, the car is never off so you don’t need to turn the car on again to get access to it.
What a fantasy scenario. In what world can someone force their way into to your locked car but can't force their way into the glove box?
Most glove boxes don't have large panes of glass? The sound of a broken window to get in will also motivate a thief to not stick around messing with a glovebox very long. Maybe leave something worth running off with in the center console as a deflection.
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#94A conversation that should have happened during the development of this car, but didn't: "Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu? Because that would be inconvenient, unintuitive, and doesn't allow quick access? Then why the fuck would you do this with anything ?"
> Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu? “Because title 49, subtitle B, chapter III, subchapter B, part 393, subpart C, paragraph 393.40 of Federal Safety Regulations requires us to install brakes as specified by subpart B, paragraph 571.105 of the same regulations, which require a pedal. And if those did not exist, then we absolutely would install some other bullshit, make you pay e…
Hand brakes are also known as emergency brakes, but in my new Toyota it's electric and activated by a tiny little tab switch.
My previous car a big lever that the passenger could easily yank in an emergency. No thought required, it's a big level you grab and pull.
By the time you find the little black plastic tab amongst all the other similar black plastic doo-dads, you're dead.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um, what truck bed can be lit by using the reverse lights? The only way I can see this working is if there's another truck behind you so that your reverse lights are pointed at the other truck. Truck bed lights have always been behind the cab. I've never seen reverse lights considered as bed lights.
All pickups I've seen have reverse lights built into the third brake light which is behind the cab above the bed. And with that it makes sense as a safety feature - if the only way to turn those on is go into reverse, people would be tempted to throw the truck in reverse and leave the parking brake on while they jump in the back to look for something. Unfortunately it seems not all of them are locked out as I've seen…
I think you may be confusing things. There is a separate switch for turning on the bed lights which has typically been above the rear window in the center. The reverse lights are part of the rear brake lights. It is absolutely possible to leave the bed lights on while driving.
The concept you propose is absolutely preposterous to the point I feel I'm feeding a troll
Re: Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
#96A conversation that should have happened during the development of this car, but didn't: "Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu? Because that would be inconvenient, unintuitive, and doesn't allow quick access? Then why the fuck would you do this with anything ?"
You the fuck do this with some things because if you didn't ever do it, modern cars would either look like a jet aircraft cockpit, or they'd have very few features. Anyone who's looked inside a Subaru from circa 2019 would know how physical button mania can make cars objectively worse.
(To be clear, I'm firmly on team mechanical glove boxes.)
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#97Easily the single dumbest decision in the Model 3 IMO.
Re: Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu? “Because title 49, subtitle B, chapter III, subchapter B, part 393, subpart C, paragraph 393.40 of Federal Safety Regulations requires us to install brakes as specified by subpart B, paragraph 571.105 of the same regulations, which require a pedal. And if those did not exist, then we absolutely would install some other bullshit, make you pay e…
Hand brakes are also known as emergency brakes , but in my new Toyota it's electric and activated by a tiny little tab switch. My previous car a big lever that the passenger could easily yank in an emergency . No thought required, it's a big level you grab and pull. By the time you find the little black plastic tab amongst all the other similar black plastic doo-dads, you're dead.
Unless you really know what you’re doing, you’re better off trying to steer the car into the safest crash site/uphill possible than to try to stop it with the hand brake. The hand brake only locks the rear wheels and are not designed to brake at driving speeds (they are for keeping a stationary car from moving). Improper use of the handbrake results in the car spinning out.
Re: Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
#99A conversation that should have happened during the development of this car, but didn't: "Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu? Because that would be inconvenient, unintuitive, and doesn't allow quick access? Then why the fuck would you do this with anything ?"
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Re: Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hand brakes are also known as emergency brakes , but in my new Toyota it's electric and activated by a tiny little tab switch. My previous car a big lever that the passenger could easily yank in an emergency . No thought required, it's a big level you grab and pull. By the time you find the little black plastic tab amongst all the other similar black plastic doo-dads, you're dead.
Unless you really know what you’re doing, you’re better off trying to steer the car into the safest crash site/uphill possible than to try to stop it with the hand brake. The hand brake only locks the rear wheels and are not designed to brake at driving speeds (they are for keeping a stationary car from moving). Improper use of the handbrake results in the car spinning out.
This is exactly why I'm so sore about the newfangled button handbrake in my current front-wheel driven car. No more fun getting the rear to spin out by yanking the handbrake while exiting a corner at full throttle. Sadness.