It is true that today’s cars are by all means are a top notch collection of super technologies that make the driving experience a pleasant adventure. There are a number of technologies that are singled out here as some of the most cumbersome and annoying advancements in the car industries. Car rating and customer feedbacks has contributed to the list below:
- Touch sensitive controls: Car owners just love traditional buttons or dials and most find touch controls difficult to find and operate. They tend to be distracting especially when trying to locate thus a possible cause of road accidents.
- Touch screen displays: Operating these expansive menu controlled touch screen displays is more or less like operating a touch laptop. Who has all that time on the road? These displays tend to combine everything from navigation systems to seat adjusters thus making it a long process to figure out anything.
- Audio tuning buttons: Honestly, drivers prefer old school knobs to turn up or down in a single move instead of severally tapping.
- Navigation systems: They can get quite cumbersome to program and then there is the fact that the systems and other touchscreen functions get disabled by many cars as soon as the car is on drive mode completely ignoring that there could be a core-driver to navigate them.
- Giant Key Fobs: Drivers do appreciate remote-entry systems but a huge key fob is quite a nuisance. Take for example Jaguar, while it may be a status symbol in car acquisition, it is now a welcome one.
- Cup holders: Some square cup-coddlers modified by automakers to factor in kids juice boxes are a fail. They are either too big, too small or inconveniently located.
- Auto Stop-Start: This feature is particular to the hybrid cars and it means that the engine goes off when the brake pad is pressed and start again soon as the brake is released to save fuel. The noise associated can be quite annoying at every stop sign.
- Voice Controlled systems: Accents and other factors affecting speech lead to misinterpretation of commands which is extremely annoying.
- Car alarms: Maybe they are outdated?
- Small side mirrors: Small mirrors tend to be little uncooperative in estimating distance of objects. Bigger means clear view and better car rating in terms of safety..
