Ten worst modern car features
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Car technology is amazing. It has brought us amazing safety features and traction control so subtle that you really have to pay attention to notice it. But some modern car features are so wildly infuriating you want to turn the car off and just walk away.
These are some of the ones we think are the most heinous. Things like £150,000 cars with a reversing camera that might as well be a marrow, or fake exhausts going absolutely nowhere.
Each and every one can ruin a car, and some of them seem so pointless you just wonder... why?
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Fake exhausts
01:33 Voice recognition
02:21 Gesture control
02:51 Low-res reversing cameras
03:29 Social media integration
03:34 Tiny cupholders
04:05 Pre-set lane-keep assist
04:45 Not-round steering wheels
05:27 Bluetooth lockout
05:51 Fake vents
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What really annoys you?
Everything
Removing physical buttons although they are easier to use and don't require you looking at them.
Integrating everything in a screen ( climate control, seat heaters, ect.). That is just a cheap and ugly way of making an automobile.
Screen instrument clusters.
You guys covered all the rest.
Auto start/stop. Please make that go away. If I wanted to save petrol, I'd be driving a Prius.
No vent windows. AC controls that don't let you do what you want. Buzzers with no volume control. Reverse lights that come on when the car isn't in reverse. Expensive keys. Huge, distracting screens. All the muscle cars with engines that sound like you locked a bear in a room with a bunch of metal bowls and occasionally throw in some firecrackers.
Joykill noise level regs
What about touch screens?
They are even more dangerous to operate while driving than a phone, according to several studies.
See this one, for example: Visual and Cognitive Demands of Using In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems by AAA
I absolutely hate them
Despise them with a passion
I think every car manufacture is trying to copy Tesla interior as Tesla cars are considered as futuristic cars. Futuristic technology is great but trying to use it in every day life is really a big pain.
Touch screens have no business being in a automobile...
Unless we reach Full Self Driving.
The electrification of everything, steering, handbrake, suspension etc. There's nothing wrong with mechanical items and if they hadn't noticed they are more reliable. The amount of brand new Audis and BMW's I've seen broken down at the side of the road because computer says NO.
That's why I drive a 1983 Benz 240D
Electrification of estate car rear hatch: sweeps open much slower than gas struts / spring alone and is another thing to go wrong.
ahhhh hahahahaha ! yes!!! compu ‘er says noo
LED headlights that blind everybody coming in opposite direction, touch screen that controls half the car, push button start
Exhaust piped in through the radio should be on there for sure
Definitely the layers of customisation menus, the replacement of essential physical buttons by touch and haptic control, fake intakes/vents/tips and auto rev-matching in manual transmission cars
Haptic noob!
How come no one hates on the plymouth superbird for having fake vents on the front arches though??
Fake engine sound via speakers.
I'll add touch screens and touch buttons. There imho more than just uncomfortable. Often they react slow, there's no haptic feedback and you have to take your eyes from the road for a lot of functions which makes them even dangerous. What's wrong with classic buttons, switches and knobs? They work and they don't distract me from driving. And using the right materials and designs they even look great in modern cars.
And looking at that Tesla screen and seeing The Witcher 3... video games and movies definitely don't belong on the dashboard. NEVER! Even when autonomous driving becomes a thing (still don't trust the ai to always judge the sensor and camera data correctly) you should always be ready to react as a driver.
Oh, and i almost forgot: Weight! Everybody's talking about reducing weight, but most cars get heavier with every new generation.
What's "wrong" with real buttons is they're expensive to make. Accountants design cars these days. The last cars designed by engineers came out in around 1994/95
“Automatic parking”. The chances are that the car will insert itself into a gap that the driver is incapable of extracting it from ….. based on the premise that they weren’t capable or confident enough to park their unnecessarily bloated blob in the first place.
Thats fine! That way, they won't be back on the road for a while!
11. artificial backfire
12. valve controlled exhausts
13. speed limiters
14. centre consoles so wide they leave no room for your legs
For 14, it might be because of the gearbox linkages stuff like for example: Bugatti Chiron. That center console is huge
12 seems alright in my opinion, in low revs doesnt intrude loud noises to everywhere. Once you are higher up the rev, it sounds "cool"??
Those are just my opinions
Valved exhaust is great I have a 2018 challenger r/t 6spd and it closes below 1/3 throttle when not In sport mode so it's not droney on the hwy.
The entire top 10 should just be "Touchscreens"
YES
Very annoying while driving, very complex more like operating a computer while driving.
Fake diffusers, touch screen everything, factory navigation systems, poor sight lines, lack of rearward vision.
I hate reverse lights that come on when the car is locked or unlocked, such as GMC/Chevy. How do I know if someone's reversing or if they just got out of their car?
I did not even knew this was a thing before i read your comment and I am mad about this now 😂
Pano black trim need to go away because it feels cheep
Most new car buyers just want a smart phone on wheels... Sad...
You just described a Tesla. 🙄
No option to delete the radio and navigation system. I have owned 3 Porsche GT3's and each one I have ordered without the heavy radio, speakers, and navigation system. When my Porsche dealer informed me that I was eligible to order a new GT3, the PCM delete was no longer an option. Second, cars are now data collection and privacy violating. Not only is my location monitored, but so is the radio station I listen to, my contacts, etc. No vehicle manufacturer should have such information of a vehicle that I own.
I will never trust a push button hand brake.
when autosearch on the radio just goes back round to where it started, missing every station on the dial. I miss the tuning knob.
Funny thing is these are all the features that companies are pushing to sell cars the most. The sad thing is people are buying into it!
Electric handbrake, power tail gates, screen dashboards that look like a PlayStation instead of a nice set of clocks…
Sorry but what exactly is wrong with the electric handbrake?
@@ARDEN440i Wait until it goes wrong!! Range Rover body-off 5 hours labour alone, and what was so hard about pulling a lever ? Oh for the fun drivers no more hand brake turns..
Electric handbrake with hill start assist for a manual gearbox. You have no business driving a manual if you cannot safely hill start. Ever try to pull a donut with an electric handbrake?
Windows that don't roll down completely
When car companies prostitute their performance brand and sell it as an extra on every model regardless of engine. You know, that disguating "line" thing.
Did you mean substitute
Because I think a company making a car be a prostitute is illegal
What I hate is VSC you can't turn off. I live in Iowa on a ridge so all the roads home are uphill. They get snow covered and icy in the winter and while I'm trying to get up them in icy conditions the tires are going to spin. That's no problem, I know how to drive in ice and snow but the Freaking VSC automatically slams on the brakes, stopping me dead in my tracks. It really pisses me off! I know how to drive the damn car, I don't want, need or appreciate the Freaking car making those decisions for me. Same with automatic windshield wipers.
Touch screens, welcoming sounds and lights, adaptive cruise control that can't be switched off to passive function, all these modern "assists", overdesigned gear levers, electronic parking brake, ECO trainer, suggested gear indicator, driving tips advices....
And also features you don't get anymore in most cars: oil and water temperature gages
I sold my 2007 GMC and bought and restored a 1949 GMC. Much better....
10/10, all of these are great must (not) haves for car makers.
A nice rule of thumb I'd like to see followed is 'If the driver is expected to be able to operate this feature without looking away from the road it _must_ have a physical/manual control and not found in a menu screen.'
Two things I hate are the sporty aggressive styling and the minimalist design of cars, where have the classic styles of the 60’s gone to, or the wonderfully plane (yet exciting) styling of the 90’s?
Agree the cars from the 90s had much better shape. Today the design are more and more safety related. No doubt safety is required but this becoming to much with all those curves flocking way out, I think. The 90s cars were just flat from the side and had no need of extra curves.
Some 90s cars look great, but imho a lot of them look like 80s cars after they melted.
To each their own. 60s? Ughhh. Now the 30s…
The confusion to some people using DRL's at night or past sunset, idk why there is no system to detect or inform a driver biased on the time its moving in to turn lights on.
Not to mention that in some countries its mandatory to drive with lights on all the time...
Couldn’t agree more about touch screens generally! Alas, as my engineer friend explained, the mfg/rd cost savings is what drives every company and their shills to market. Despite our brains screaming and crying for buttons and dials every time you want to change temperature.
The trend of Small windows and low roof lines are a pain in the neck too.
You guys nailed it! Also, Save the Manuals!
I love how they put fake exhaust in the front …
In some point, car makers forgot that cars are made be driven. And we like to do it!
How have you not mentioned fake engine noises?
*before hitting play*
Where's touchscreens on this list?
This makes me mad and I don’t even have a car with any of these pointless technologies/problems
Don't forget modern cars, they are the worst things about modern cars
You should've added auto start/stop🤦🏿♂️
When you get out of the vehicle and it tells everyone within 100 yards that you have left your mobile phone in the car
Stop/start engine systems. I get why manufacturers have them on cars but it annoys me that I have to turn it off every time I get in the car. It’s too hot where I live to sit in traffic without the aircon running.
What I really hate in some modern day cars is the automatically parking system which makes the car to steer itself. Really is it that difficult for a person to look into the side view mirrors or rear view camera to park a car.
When you put it this way, I will try not to get mad the next time I spend hours battling seized bolts or buying parts every other month for my rusty and dusty '97 5spd.
Electronic handbrakes. More likely to go wrong and less fun because no more handbrake turns.
Also heater/air con controlled by touch screen. It's a pain to use
BMW completely removing the oil dipstick on some of their non-hybrid gasoline powered cars...
I have no words.
I despise heated seat and temp controls in the touch screens
Meaningless chimes warning of some horrible catastrophe if you want to sit in the car with the engine off. I found my big hammer, now if I could find the chime…
Two things I hate in modern cars are touch-screen controls over actual buttons and cars turning themselves off while waiting at intersections.
Beeping. Beeping is the legitimate actual worst.
And especially the Beeping to indicate what you already know you are doing, while focusing on reversing the car, while looking at either the camera or the window, knowing how close you are getting, and the Beeping demands to be heard over everything you are seeing because you are trying to not hit anything, but it's also like trying to draw a tee, while being shoved into the desk by a teacher, her mouth is pressed against your ear, and she is shouting T, T, T, T, T, T, T, TEEEEEEEEE.
That's how you end up drawing an x or +.
Or slamming into someone else's Buick.
Keyless entry, so I never know if my car is locked
Touchscreens, Electric tailgates
Lights that want to come on / stay on on their own schedule, and that you can’t just turn on or off. Madness!
fake exhausts hurt me
*physically*
Self cancelling indicators. They invariably self cancel themselves mid way through a manoeuvre when they’re most needed and I’m quite capable of cancelling them myself thank you.
Automatic triple-indicators are equally annoying:
"Hm, is this my turn? Best to indicate..."
*switches stalk over*
*car indicates left*
*car indicates left*
"Oops, no wait! It's the NEXT one! Best indicate right, with a single flash, to notify those behind that I changed my mind... 😳"
*switches stalk over*
*car indicates left* (triple-sequence is still going)
*car indicates right* (now responding to stalk)
*switches indicator stalk OFF after single indicator flash*
*car indicates right* (sequence still going)
*car indicates right* (sequence complete)
Now I look like a complete idiot indicating all over the place! Gee, thanks, car! 😣
Bluetooth lockout should be disabled if the passenger seat detects weight. The bloody seatbelt alarm has no trouble going off when you have a small bag on the passenger seat but heaven forbid the engineers didn't think to disable the lockout if there was a passenger in the car >_
Electric motor for petrol door opening: nonsense at all!
Piping Ferrari exhaust sounds in to a Nissan Micra cabin🤯
Always-illuminated instrument panels are just the worst. I'm not talking about not having the Saab Night Panel mode, wonderful as that would be to have in every car; I'm talking about the ones that are always lit up, whether or not the headlights are on. Back in the day, you would be forcibly reminded that it was time to turn your lights on by being unable to see the clocks, but nowadays they're always lit, so far too many people can quite literally forget to turn on their headlights after dark, rendering them functionally invisible. It's made worse by the prevalence of daytime running lamps, but the problem is the instrument panel.
Automatic gearboxes. 😒 All of a sudden, the gearshifter has gone the way of the dodo.
Let us drive! Mind over motor.
An auto isn't a modern car featue
Well, the fact that modern cars aren't available with anything other than an automatic gearbox is. That was my point. 🙂
Speed limiters out of our control, Fake engine sound.
I hatte these fake exhaust simulating speakers somewhere in the car
Thank you!
Bring back windwings Perfect climate control accessory....
Just made it back from a 50 mile drive in the country set up .
My 1970 MG/GT has not many features needed. Only One the electric overdrive ..what a great feature ..simple enough ..ok sometimes I forget to switch it off .but no big deal ..
As always less is more ..As the car is the sound machine it those not feature a radio.
Plus it is changing its own oil while driving or parking 😉
Fake engine/exhaust sound, and giant grilles. Also, fake diffusers on Altimas, Camrys, etc. Even when a car has real aero, it does absolutely nothing outside of the track. Even even if it did, more grip just raises the limits (AKA: fun) of the car out of reach. Go drive a a car on the road with aero and 50 treadwear 325 section tires. Then go drive a Miata or BRZ. Then put you ego aside and tell me which is more fun
Wing mirrors which magnify the image and create a false sense of distance to the cars behind.
Big wheels
I hate these tire pressure sensors. It's got a watch battery and when that goes dead. You have to dismount the tire to get to the damn thing. They constantly disconnect, setting
off the warning light. It would always send a fault when I passed through this one stretch of highway. Is it really that hard to just pay a little attention to your tires when
you walk up the vehicle. My truck has this system and I can't get it to connect and I can't disable it. POS.
Electric cars, hybrids, automatics. Just *NO!*
Turn signals that don't stay in their position and instead click to turn on and off. Makes signalling during quick succession turns in the city very difficult.
I agree with the opinion on fake exhaust. My brother was showing off his new car to me one time. "Call Eamon" he said, attempting to ring my phone, and the voice recognition didn't understand. He tried again and it didn't work so he got annoyed and said "f🤬 off". "Calling (name of one of his friends)" said the voice recognition thing. 🤣
True story!
Edit: in fairness, if I was driving I wouldn't want the passenger putting on music. If I'm driving I get to choose the music or if there's going to be any.
I think the worst thing is fake motor sound. It’s absurd
Auto start/stop. Please make that go away. It has to be disabled at every departure. (At least it's an actual button). If I wanted to save petrol, I'd be driving a Prius.
Take computers out of cars and leave them in an office.
Launch control - I can’t think of a single situation on road or even a track day when this would be useful.
It's pretty cool though
Over-complicated infotainment systems systems packed all the features of a teenagers mobile phone with no thought to the functionality required to actually operate important vehicle systems.
Virtual dashboard with 256 different warning symbols and a 300 page handbook to explain them all.
Shiny black plastics on the dashboard that creates a lot of annoying and distracting reflections, show every fingermark and speck of dust, scratch easily and look cheap.
Cupholders placed above or close to sensitive electronics that don't react well to liquid spillage
Cup holders located in paces where they are impossible to use
OFF button for auto stop/start system located well out of normal site lines and right next to buttons you don't want to hit accidentally while you are driving (such as traction control)
Lack of standard USB ports for charging mobile phones and other items (my new car has only 1)
Thick screen pillars that create blind spots.
Low profile tyres on everything.
Alloy wheels on everything.
Assuming that “more sporty” is better when most would benefit from more refinement.
Adding trinkets to cars rather than making the fundamentals better.
Lifeless over-assisted primary controls.
Fat steering wheel rims that obscure instruments.
Painted bumpers.
Marketing dept seem to be more important than engineers.
Excessive trim that robs interior space.
Throwaway culture - cars aren’t kept for many years.
The general public being daft enough to spend a sizeable chunk of their disposable income on mobile white goods.
Depressing thoughts eh?
Agree.
Huge A pillars.....blind spot.
Too many simple things on the touchscreen (climate controls, radio), and too many power assisted seats, doors, and windows that move ACHINGLY SLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW.
do those fake vents include grills on evs? fake grills at least make it look like a car
Headlamp washers !
Fake exhausts like on the Miura? Hardly new.
Hill assist! A faster way to go through your clutch. On my WRX, it goes off even when you're taking off from a leveled road.
"Automatic Air Conditioning" - you won't get the right climate anyway, just give me a turn control in blue and red i can somewhat relate to
This please.
This is where I disagree. Automatic climate control is just about the only automated system I am happy with in a car.
I think the reason they are unpopular, though, is that many equate the temperature setting with a FAN setting. But this is a misunderstanding.
If you enter a car that has 25°C interior temperature, and start the climate system set to 20°C, fans will blast you with cold air in order to get the temperature down. After a few minutes, the fans will calm down as the desired temperature has been reached.
But many are probably startled by the aggressive fan control, and thus start fiddling with the temperature setting. This leads to not getting to the desired temperature, so the driver starts fiddling with the setting again...
Just leave it set to your desired temperature, and let the system do its thing for however long it takes to reach the temperature setting. Trust me, it works!
@@PerHedetun at least my "VW Gold 5" didn't.
Regulated to early. I needed to set it lower then specified to ever reach a temperature and even after reaching it (additional thermometer) i wasn't ever able to keep it remotly on point.
To start it and later just turn it down slightly is just al i need
@@Niklas.K95 I suppose mileage may vary. 😁
To summarize,
If you're going to innovate new ideas, at least make them functional.
Get rid of the screens period.
Piano black trim. Pre-scratched from the factory for your viewing pleasure!
Let's see.
Putting *everything* including basic everyday controls on the touch screen, worse, buried in menus.
Piping fake exhaust noise into the cabin through the audio speakers
Four words: Piano black glossy plastic
Low rooflines that make entry and exit a pain for us taller folks.
Those touch screens that look like they were an afterthought - stuck into the top of the dash partially blocking some drivers' view
Ridiculously bright LED headlights, especially on SUVs and trucks, that blind oncoming traffic at night
Piano black trim
I have one cars above 1.400kg and using aluminum parts like man i bought a jaguar not a charger or a suv...
Auto rev matching downshift. I wrecked several clutches learning to heel-toe 🤬🤬🤬
100%. AGREE!!!
Not round wheels saves space. Obviously.
Just make a basic rwd with your basic 4cyl, remove all the crap and sell it for 10k
For what it's worth, you show the front of a Kia Stinger during the "fake vents" portion at the end of the video, but the front brake vents on the Stinger are functional. The hood and rear vents are not, which is lamentable, but give the car credit for what it is: an incredible GT sedan for far less than comparable European brands.
But it's a Kia though
@@oldlud8971 So? It'll take a Challenger Scat Pack in the 1/4 mile, trust me. With a V6.
My brother had a Cortina MK3 in which you turned the lights on by opening the glovebox.
Fake crackles on gear change. They sound awful, they sound fake and weak and they happen on upshifts because in a race car...They don't.
My Peugeot 3008 has them all... And a terrible seat.
I'll keep it simple...too much tech
Welp, imma just keep buying 80s, 70s and 60s cars
On my car? Nothing, I have miata 89 😀
Anything other than engine management with a computer.