Just discovered this thread and really enjoyed reading it. Some I had noticed also.
Following are my comments:
My first one:
The "toggle" switches don't really toggle, and they don't follow the convention that UP must =on and DOWN must =off.
If they are going to use a single switch for only a single on/off function, the switch should be DOWN=off and UP=on. If it is a function that is nominally set by the car's computer but can be toggled either other way, then default CENTER, DOWN=off and UP=on.
How true!!
The gas gauge has 100/50/0% marks, but it has 8 divisions vice the 10 that would align with percentages. So, one bar low means you're at 87.5%. Yuck.
Wondered why I was looking at that and first drop down did not look like 90%.
The OAT reading sits above the miles remaining display. Since both of them will read between 0 and 110 (assuming Fahrenheit) most days, they are easily mistaken for each other.
The temp should go near the time.
That would be nice.
When doing my parking brake testing I did realize it's counterintuitive to push forward for reverse and pull back for forward.
Completely agree. Still getting used to pulling back to go forward and pushing forward to go back.
And of course the biggest (by far) annoyance, no light in the charge port bay. It's just a dark, black hole when trying to plug in at night.
Yes, and Thanks to Insightman, I have an order into Amazon for those led lights to solve this.
The steering wheel buttons:
1) should be reversed - radio on the left and cruise control on the right. This keeps the flight controls to the right hand and allows one to signal a lane change with the left stalk while working the "hand throttle" cruise control buttons with the right.
2) the radio button should control volume up and down with the up and down keys, and the station change with the left and right keys.
Completely agree. Should be standardize so all cars are the same. We are back to two cars with ACC on opposite sides of the steering wheel. How many times has my wife said "What happen" when the the radio source changes because I'm attempting to change cruise control.
They really should have moved the driving mode switch to the left side for the US drivers.
This reminded me of a vacation trip with our daughters in Australia. We had a rental car that had the steering wheel on the opposite side of what us Americans are used to, But the strange part was the lights and wiper controls were on opposite side. Daughters yelled "Oh Dad" many times until I stopped turning on the wipers when I really intended to signal our turn.
... I wish it would save your last active cruise control follow distance setting to the driver profile. It always defaults to the longest (4 bars) distance.
Yes, constantly having to decrease it.
As far as navigation, mostly enjoying it. One thing I have not figured out is how to avoid certain part of route. IE - driving to Mini of Loveland on I-25 can be a pain (lots of construction and traffic). On goggle maps, I could just select to avoid part of the route.
Anyhow, Thanks to F14Scott, Puppethead, Insightman, Lainey and GvilleGuy for all the interesting commentary. Glad I found this Mini Forum on Insideevs.
