Renault cars

Raised as a usability problem by 18 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Renault cars, 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 17 complaints

Balance controls are unintuitive; car had to stop so occupants could work out how to change it2025-09-19
Slow refresh makes it hard to judge acceleration and control speed precisely2024-01-08
Constant beeps, flashing lights and pop-up messages demand attention and distract the driver2022-09-12
Volume can only be adjusted through the touchscreen, not physical controls, while driving2022-05-25
Road-law popup covers entire touchscreen for over a minute on every drive2022-01-31
Car controls and displays are poorly designed and hard to use safely while driving2019-07-04
Steering wheel buttons share icons with dash buttons but do different things2019-07-04
Cup holder sits at shin height under the center console, forcing spills when inserting a can2019-07-04
Controls are hidden or badly placed, such as the ECO button behind cupholder cups2019-07-04
Stalk rotation accidentally switches headlights off when indicating or flicking beams2019-07-04
Cluttered layout and too many colors make the car interior hard to use2019-07-04
Driver accidentally presses a button placed beside the handbrake and seatbelt buckle2019-07-03
Too many steering wheel buttons are distracting and take focus from the road2019-07-03
Steering wheel and cruise control controls are poorly designed and fragmented across teams2019-07-03
Making all car functions touch-based is distracting and risks driver safety2019-07-03
Digital car interfaces are less intuitive and harder to use than manual controls2019-07-03
Making a phone call requires using the touchscreen, which is always a pain2019-06-17