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General Discussion Area / New car technology .
« on: 28 January 2024, 21:56:18 »
Picked up my new car on Friday after a seven month wait .
Salesman was almost orgasmic showing me the "infotronics " which frankly induced glazed vision and thoughts of what was for tea when I got home .
Anyway after identifying the lights , wipers and seat adjustment I set off for home .
A couple of peculiar things occurred on route , one of which was AEC Matador type steering and a bright red flashing warning for " lane assist " which twiched my sphincter more than a little .
So over the weekend I sat down to go through the owners manual .
I opened the case containing it to find an inch and a quarter thick book , all in English !
I turned my attention to the heating and ventilation chapter to be confronted with THREE pages of intro warnings and important notices before it led you into the maze of touch screen tedium ....and have I said that I detest touch screens in cars .
The dash chapter shows me all of the 83 indication/warning icons that tell me what's going on , all of which require me to switch to reading glasses mode before I can identify what is going to break first .
The technology is clearly aimed at the technological elite of todays world yet the intro feature identification page has a big arrow pointing to and identifying ,the headlight .
In the 8 years between our little & loved Yeti and this the equipment content has went batshit crazy .
80% of it will never be used .
Salesman was almost orgasmic showing me the "infotronics " which frankly induced glazed vision and thoughts of what was for tea when I got home .
Anyway after identifying the lights , wipers and seat adjustment I set off for home .
A couple of peculiar things occurred on route , one of which was AEC Matador type steering and a bright red flashing warning for " lane assist " which twiched my sphincter more than a little .
So over the weekend I sat down to go through the owners manual .
I opened the case containing it to find an inch and a quarter thick book , all in English !
I turned my attention to the heating and ventilation chapter to be confronted with THREE pages of intro warnings and important notices before it led you into the maze of touch screen tedium ....and have I said that I detest touch screens in cars .
The dash chapter shows me all of the 83 indication/warning icons that tell me what's going on , all of which require me to switch to reading glasses mode before I can identify what is going to break first .
The technology is clearly aimed at the technological elite of todays world yet the intro feature identification page has a big arrow pointing to and identifying ,the headlight .
In the 8 years between our little & loved Yeti and this the equipment content has went batshit crazy .
80% of it will never be used .
