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https://www.thedrive.com/news/hyundai-p ... -dangerous

Shame the legislators can't see the danger and just ban the bloody things. IIRC Mazda have also said the same.

Totally agree, the few cars I have driven I have not even looked at the touch screen. Bad enough finding light switch on Fords (bottom right) why not on the stalk.
Hyundai's are good, from a maintenance point of view, dull drive but you can't have everything.

Mrs T has a Hyundai i20 it's as dull as ditchwater, but it does what it says on the tin.

vanman wrote:Hyundai's are good, from a maintenance point of view, dull drive but you can't have everything.

i30N is quite entertaining

A small victory for common sense. One of the reasons I went for my new Audi - it runs on old technology

vanman wrote:Totally agree, the few cars I have driven I have not even looked at the touch screen. Bad enough finding light switch on Fords (bottom right) why not on the stalk.

Because they've been puting it there for at least 25 years (VW & Mercedes put it there on some models too). Shame Ford have now put the fog lights on separate buttons - my old Mondeo you pulled it out one notch for front fogs & 2 for the rears, & turning the lights off turned the fogs off too

I have a seven year old Hyundai Tucson - it has been trouble free and I like it a lot. Since we are on an AD forum I will mention that one of the main reasons I chose it over all the other mid-market SUV's is that the top spec version was available with a manual gearbox. That would not apply to any newer equivalent since they are all hybrids with auto gearboxes. I do like my Hyundai's mainly button based controls - though I regularly use the touch screen to change between radio presets.

In a previous car I had to use a laggy touch screen for the heated seats and it was a pain.

In newer cars I find the voice control systems work quite well and I use them for setting satnavs or (dare I admit it) dialling the phone. I expect they would also work for controlling the HVAC and volume but happily I have buttons or knobs for those functions in all our cars.

Is there a case for more standardisation of controls for functions like wipers and cruise controls? As someone who swaps from car to car and regularly uses cruise controls I often have to think which finger or thumb to use.

vanman wrote:Totally agree, the few cars I have driven I have not even looked at the touch screen.

Are there no functions which you can only operate via the touch screen?