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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

I have a 2021 Seat Leon, basically it is a Golf with a Spannish design, almost everything apart from actually driving the car uses touch controls, with one exception, media can be controlled by buttons and a roller on the steering wheel.

It is really annoying and countries need to regulate that the following can't be touch controls:

A/C Temp

A/C Fanspeed

Heated rear window

Heated wind screen

Heated seats

Exterior light controls

Media volume

Media play/pause

Media previous/next track

Engine mode (Electric/Hybrid/HybridCustom)

[–] iwilljustforget@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aside from media related options, why wouldn't you want all of those to be automatically controlled?

[–] mp2@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever driven a car before?

[–] iwilljustforget@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. Nice cars that automatically handle these functions for me. I wouldn't ever want to go back pushing buttons when it can just happen when it's supposed to.

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