Basic functions buried several menu levels deep

Raised by 46 people over 14 years (2013–2026), in 10 of them.

What people report

2013-10
the option to disable traction control was buried four levels deep in a menu system
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2021-05
Why would I ever want to control my heated seats through a touchscreen? Or A/C? Or Radio presets.
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2023-01
we accept touch screens with menus four levels deep for basic stuff
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2025-01
My subaru has a fairly mediocre touchscreen and interface but almost all of the things I actually use are manual controls.
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2026-11
the button became like 4 screens in the touch-screen tablet the car comes with, just to force people to stop hitting th
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Principle

Discoverability, and efficiency of use

People report that radio presets, driving features and even the hood release are buried several taps and pages deep, so they are hard to find at all and each adjustment stretches into long glances away from the road.

More issues about flexibility and efficiency of use and discoverability

A fix

Keep every function used while moving at most one tap from any screen, through a persistent bar that doesn't change between apps, and let drivers pin their own shortcuts. Give safety-relevant mechanical functions like the hood release a physical fallback.

Grouping, principle and fix drafted with Claude and reviewed by Justusability. Counts are people whose comment Claude labelled a usability complaint about this issue; see Method for how, and its limits. Something wrong here?

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