Polestar

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with Polestar, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

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 9 complaints

Car controls are all on one giant touch screen, hard and unsafe to use2026-01-20
Seat heat needs two touchscreen presses to set, unlike a simple button2025-12-24
Infotainment is slow with frame drops, crashes, and features often not working2025-07-22
Car says it cannot find both fobs during pairing, blocking app features2025-04-25
Dual-climate zone feature is hard to discover and tell apart on touchscreen2024-12-28
Controls moved to touchscreen or joystick, which may cause driver fumbling and distraction2024-05-10
Drivers must look away from road to find AC controls on screen2023-10-27
Voice control is slow and often misunderstands what the user says2022-08-17
Android-based car screen constantly changes itself and features stop working after years2019-02-27