Mysterious (non-culinary) technology

[AlaMoi]

buttons and buttons and buttons . . . .

 

did a vacation, rented a car.  turned out to be one of the upper tier Japanese imports.

buttons for everything.  sang a tune when you got it, moved, got out . . .

where's the button to turn on the headlights?

nuts - where's the button for the windshield wipers?  oh, and the washers . . .

where's the stupid button to turn off this stupid auto-stop/start 'feature?'

oh, and then there's the pressholdbutton to add 30 or 40 additional functions to the button . . .

 

my 2014 car has lots of buttons - but the important features are knobs/mechanical switches/etc. 

for the rest, I've stuck felt sticky pads on the buttons I really need to operate when driving - at least I can find them without pulling off the road and ducking under the dash . . .

attempting to turn on the reading light for the passenger side, I managed to call "Emergency Service" multiple times - and once you press that button, it cannot be 'unpressed'

 

DW was looking at new cars - all the "big screen" with icons - and menus and sub-menus and sub-sub-menus . . .

not much different than an iPhone - anything you want to do starts with an internet search on "How do I . . ." - the most simple stuff buried menus-menu-menus deep.

. . . .and every time they come out with a absolute must have security upgrade, , , , they change all the stuff.

like Windows - same seats, Microsoft simply rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic so it's "new"

 

we need a new definition of "fun stuff" - the icon crowd just ain't gittin' it.

[TdeV]

@AlaMoi, we're just old. As it so happens, my car is a Saab (2007). Whenever I have to take it to the garage, I get a rental. And I have to sit in the parking lot for 15 minutes to see if I ought to drive it out of the lot! 🤣

[Kerry Beal]

Last rental I had - I pushed a button and everything was suddenly in Japanese - including the instructions for trying to get it back to english! 

[KennethT]

4 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

Last rental I had - I pushed a button and everything was suddenly in Japanese - including the instructions for trying to get it back to english! 

When we rented a car in Iceland, everything was in Icelandic, so the first evening (after driving to the hotel) was spent downloading the manual...