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People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...::People are dissatisfied with the technology in their cars, according to a new survey from JD Power. They especially don’t like the native infotainment systems.

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[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My car is 17 years old. It won't be long before I need to look out for a new one. Posts like these make me wary of buying a new one.

What would annoy me the most is having little to no physical buttons for trivial things, and the built in SBC to be slow as fuck. I hate lag on these systems. My wife has a smaller car with android auto and using the interface is just dreadful.

If there would be an electric car with the interior of my current car I would probably take it. It has a small chromosone display, just replace with a color one and let me control it with android auto and done.

[-] folshost@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Posts like these make you wary of buying a new one. At this point I see this so regularly though that I don't know if the usage is even wrong given how many people use it

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's still wrong... Don't let the "language evolves" people convince you otherwise.

[-] Locrin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Buying a car should be a fun experience. Book a few testdrives and try to enjoy the experience. When looking for a new car there has always been several I disliked, but I always found one or two that felt comfortable in.

[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have always seen the new car buying experience to be something to get excited about.... except now. I am at the early stages of looking at what I want to replace my dairy driver with and like NOTHING is really calling to me. At this stage in the past, I would have already driven a couple of cars simply to take them off my shopping list or keep them on, and I haven't bothered to test drive a single car yet.

[-] Locrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What have you tried driving so far?

[-] mun_man@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think if you shop around you can get the kind of interface you want. I got a 2021 Subaru and they had just switched back to more actual buttons and knobs because people didn’t like the capacitive buttons and touchscreen. In my car it has a touchscreen for CarPlay so basically just maps and music and everything else is a knob or physical button. Things may have changed since too so ymmv. Good luck

[-] dman87@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Your comment about Subaru is not true across the board. I have a 2023 Ascent that has very limited physical buttons. The same infotainment system and setup is now on the Outback as well.

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