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Audi infotainment
Raised as a usability problem by 21 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 19 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads since the beginning.
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Touchscreen temperature controls require looking away from the roadUnreviewed
20182026- Touchscreen temperature controls require looking away from the road, unlike physical knobs2023-02-21
- Touchscreen temperature controls require looking away from the road, unlike physical knobs2020-04-01
- Touchscreen is hard to use blindly while the car is moving2020-03-31
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 24 complaints
- Forced to dismiss a data-sharing warning every time the car starts2026-10-01
- Driver can't tell which phone is connected or whose maps are displayed2026-05-12
- Capacitive buttons are hard to use without looking at them2024-11-08
- Must look down to find buttons, then look at screen to navigate options2024-04-24
- Took 15 seconds to find how to turn off the AC while driving2023-12-19
- Frequent pop-ups, privacy prompts and false no-connection warnings make the car's UI annoying and confusing2023-04-09
- Touchscreen temperature controls require looking away from the road, unlike physical knobs2023-02-21
- Dashboard freezes mid-drive, requiring engine restart to recover2023-01-07
- Voice button always opens Audi's own assistant instead of the one the user wants2022-12-14
- Takes a maddening amount of time to do simple tasks, so the user gives up2022-08-17
- Clunky, inconsistent controls; features locked behind subscriptions, so users rely on CarPlay2022-02-06
- Car entertainment system feels clunky and painfully slow compared to a cheap phone2021-05-16
- Handwriting recognition only correctly interprets letters about 10% of the time2021-02-26
- Dashboards and infotainment combinations are absurdly complicated, pulling driver's eyes from road2021-02-26
- Touchscreen temperature controls require looking away from the road, unlike physical knobs2020-04-01
- Map stops moving while driving and can't be re-centred by touch, forcing stops2020-03-31
- Touchscreen is hard to use blindly while the car is moving2020-03-31
- Entering street names by writing characters one by one with a finger is ridiculous2020-03-31
- Moving the CarPlay map with buttons is frustrating and more dangerous than swiping2019-06-17
- Circling through touch-designed icons with a rotary controller makes no sense2019-06-17
- Two screens without physical buttons are laggy to respond2019-05-03
- Cluttered maps and voice navigation that is awful, with climate displays needing a look down2018-08-10
- Bluetooth auto-plays whatever was last playing on the iPhone2018-07-19
- Selecting things through the control wheel instead of a touchscreen is pretty terrible to use2018-05-08