The regulation calls out 19 vehicle functions which must have physical controls inside the vehicle, with additional requirements about size and usability of the buttons.
Those functions include:
Turn signals
Hazard lights
Horn
PRND gear shifter
Driver assist function, if present
Windshield wipers
Windshield defroster
Power windows
Emergency call system
Power off switch for EVs
how am I supposed to adjust the set temperature if it’s in a sub menu on a touchscreen that’s in the glare of the sun and keeps timing out before I can adjust it because I have to keep taking my eyes off the road?
inspired by true events. drove 20 minutes in a friend’s car in the heat without being able to adjust the climate controls
in my BYD, three fingers up the touch screen, temp goes up (or down if you drag down) You can adjust the fan speed if you’re want with swipe three fingers right/left on the touch screen.
That said I’ve adjusted it maybe 3 times in my 14 month ownerships, that’s the entirely point of climatecontrol and the buttons right there on the touch screen as well and without connected series I can prewarm or preheat the car fron the phone , i cant be assed but my HF does on a cold morning as well as turn the heated seats on
I can also say "Hey BYD my balls are cold"and it turns the seat heater on
Oh that’s one of the biggest low severity annoyances: timeouts set to stupid short times. When I push buttons navigating to a certain area, the device can fucking wait for me to be done in that area and tell it to go elsewhere, not assume that 10 seconds of inactivity means I’ve wandered off and forgotten about it or something.
I have a toaster oven like that, though that’s not even the worst part of the UI design. It’s a great oven but clearly the interface was designed by someone who lacked either care or competence because you have to scroll through a bunch of useless presets for if you have some specific portion of chicken or want to burn a slice of pizza, and of course it has no memory, even if you stopped it while trying to pause it to check your food. It would have been better with an analog timer and a mode knob ffs. And if you hesitate too long while setting the mode, time, and temperature, like if you need to grab the box and then do the math to convert to convection toaster oven time and take more than 12 seconds, it’s off by the time you go to enter it.
Oh and I can only guess at what some of the modes are because the icons they use aren’t very descriptive. Is that the warm setting or broil?
It’s a stupid design for a toaster oven but extra fucking dumb for a car.