There is a general agreement that the increase in tech in cars is not ideal and that there is opposition to putting more but not all tech put in cars is a bad thing. What is your ideal setup? For me, I love the addition of a touch screen instead of the clunk infotainment systems of the past with a million buttons and panels. I don’t like having a very large screen though. I prefer having a smaller 5 or 6-inch screen just big enough to glance at my song choice or GPS but not a distraction. I prefer a manual over an automatic but if the transmission is an automatic for example I prefer a physical shifter to shift with over a button or dial. Same with the hand brake. In terms of the dash, I like some analog dashes but overall I am actually in favor of a digital speedometer as I think they help modernize most cars. The only other digital aspect I like is having the choice to use a digital rearview mirror as I find these amazing and very helpful for cars with bad blind spots. Other than that I don’t prefer any extra tech in my cars. I hate capacitive buttons, a million little beeps for blind spot monitoring, fake speakers in the exhaust, using the screen for ac, and don’t need a million different lighting aspects or sound effects in the interior. I am curious what everyone’s take on this. What do you like and don’t like? Is there tech in your current car you can’t live without now or is there something you wish was never in the car to begin with?
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I’m very much the opposite of the meta here: I love tech in my cars. As long as I get buttons for two things on the steering wheel and the dash:
1: AC and heat
2: volume and song changing
That’s basically it as far as features I actually use while the car is going. Idk why people dislike touchscreen for other things, it’s not like I’m changing directions for nav on the fly, you know?
I really like BMW interiors, but I think in terms of ideal interior, I love the Polestar 4 and Ioniq 6
- Large angled screen for AA or Carplay (also make it reliable wired or wireless)
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- 360 Camera (really useful for not curbing your rims)
- Really good ventilated seats
- Traction control you can almost completely turn off (Giulia’s biggest issue)
- HUD with Speed, RPM, current gear
Wish List:
- Leather/Vinyl seats where the cover is very easy to replace
- Easy to swap speakers and amps
- Let the 360 cameras be recordable to local MicroSD storage so it’s a 360 dashcam
- Auto headlights I can enter in a manual delay (5min) at startup (don’t like how they always turn on in the garage during daytime)
I like a large, responsive touchscreen. I much prefer the 12 inch in my truck over the 8 inch in my Forester. Although the 8 inch was much better than that godawful screen in the Outback.
Other than that, wireless CarPlay, adaptive cruise, physical climate/seat heater controls, a competent stereo and a well sorted automatic if I can’t have a manual. Rev matching if it’s a manual.
Other tech I’ve seen hasn’t wowed me enough to want to pay extra for it. I appreciate the automatic high beams and wipers, but if I could’ve deleted them and saved a few hundred bucks I would have.
I had a few manual cars with electronic parking brakes. I actually prefer it over the levers. I can’t understand why people like them.
A good sound system with CarPlay and heated everything is all that I need. I particularly hate drivers aids beyond traction control. I also miss physical buttons, those huge screens are great for many things, especially GPS, but can nothing beats physical buttons for common controls.
Tech to no tech makes some differences. Was in a brand new car with digital dash etc and now in 2015 Infiniti Q70. Despite it’s a newer ish car, the tech in the car is barely 2007 or so. I actually enjoy pushing physical buttons and like the simplicity. I didn’t know how much I missed simple interior.
I think your premise is completely wrong. That premise that “more tech is not welcome” only exists here on Reddit. The real world data has shown that tech drives sales.