2025 Equinox rental review!

[Jetronic]

I don't like GM's (older) spring-loaded switch that makes you bump it EVERY time. Both my wife's '08 F150 and my '19 Wrangler allow you to STAY in an OFF or AUTO position until you move it again.

So, shut it down, then turn key on again to pull codes and everything starts over

During some years GM really wanted you on AUTO 100% of the time

yeah that's what my (49% GM) MG has. I don't mind it as I see far too many people driving around at night with just front drl on and I normally don't need to turn them off.

 

[goblin]

Exactly! My F-150 has an 8" display and it's perfectly adequate. Our VW Tiguan also has it blended into the dash.

Actually, as usual, designers are less than smart. Them, along with the beancounters. They try to find modernism where there's none, and have zero courage to explore and build on what they have themselves created.

- Slam screens everywhere, to save money. Take all buttons away. Check

- Sell this as progress. Check.

- Make clients so angry that some companies would make official statements that they are not abandoning buttons. Check.

- Clumsily go back to half-backed buttons. Check.

Here's how me myself and I would do it:

- Slam screens everywhere, to save money. Take all buttons away.

- Sell this as progress.

- Make specific sections of the screen with a magnetic or metal background. Sell amazing, beautiful, tactile-exhilarating and EXPENSIVE magnetic rotary knobs. Picture a Nest thermostat. Can be semi-transparent or fully transparent. Have those knobs pair wit the car. Encoded pls, not simple Bluetooth.

Code the infotainment so it knows a knobs has been clipped on it, and change the image on the section where the knobs is to match the knobs. Round for example.

Allow for different types or whole clusters of knobs to be added.

Standardize this throughout the whole range.

Want just a small knobs for the volume? Sold. Want a full cluster of knobs for volume and HVAC ? SOLD.

Make money, make users happy.

Those who don't remember the craze of Nokia cellphones' interchangeable faceplates won't understand me. That was an industry in its own right. And that was simple plastic which was soon copied whereas those knobs can be proprietary.