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Raised as a usability problem by 28 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 21 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Many functions buried in central touchscreen instead of physical controlsUnreviewed
20152026- Too many functions are buried in the central touchscreen instead of physical controls2024-04-19
- Central touchscreen replaces physical knobs and buttons, and speed display is out of line of sight2023-11-14
- HVAC and audio controls buried in touchscreen menus instead of physical buttons2022-01-31
Touchscreen has high latency and rear camera works only half the timeUnreviewed
20152026- Touchscreen has horrendous latency and rear camera works only half the time2025-12-24
- Reverse camera takes ages to appear; touchscreen slowed by updates2023-04-27
- Unintuitive, laggy touchscreen; hard to pair a phone and hard to use while driving2022-03-10
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 33 complaints
- Unlocking needs phone digging, finding app, waiting; card opens only driver door2026-07-08
- Infotainment lags over a second when opening the climate panel, causing driver distraction2026-05-03
- Low-fuel and fluid warnings pop up as modal windows that obscure navigation and must be dismissed2026-05-03
- Climate controls forced onto touchscreen, hard to use while driving2025-12-24
- Too many controls and information on a touchscreen, unsafe to operate while driving2025-12-24
- Reading text and screens while driving takes eyes off the road2025-12-24
- Touchscreen has horrendous latency and rear camera works only half the time2025-12-24
- Removing physical buttons makes controls harder and more dangerous to use while driving2025-12-23
- Enabling seat heating takes four screen taps while driving2025-12-23
- Too many functions are buried in the central touchscreen instead of physical controls2024-04-19
- Central touchscreen replaces physical knobs and buttons, and speed display is out of line of sight2023-11-14
- Infotainment takes almost a minute to respond after starting, and typing into nav is sluggish2023-09-15
- Entering an address character by character via the wheel takes forever and fails late2023-06-23
- Reverse camera takes ages to appear; touchscreen slowed by updates2023-04-27
- Media controls randomly stop responding, so volume can't be changed or turned off2022-09-24
- A/C can only be changed via touchscreen, taking several taps2022-09-24
- Fan, temperature and sound balance need many taps and eyes off the road2022-08-17
- Climate controls hidden behind graphic, unclear what is a button, needs multi-click modal process2022-03-25
- Unintuitive, laggy touchscreen; hard to pair a phone and hard to use while driving2022-03-10
- Volume can't be adjusted in reverse, so loud music can't be turned down while backing out2022-01-31
- HVAC and audio controls buried in touchscreen menus instead of physical buttons2022-01-31
- Can't change radio station while the car is in reverse2022-01-31
- Climate settings behind a screen button require looking away, feeling unsafe to adjust2022-01-30
- Surround camera option buried a few gestures deep, hard to reach quickly2020-03-31
- Seat memory recalls the last setting for the key, not the driver, so seats are wrong2020-01-20
- Body-shaped AC buttons require looking at them to know their state2019-06-17
- Bewildering alarms going off while driving; voice command can't be cancelled once activated2019-03-04
- Narrator gets confused about whether music started and menu responds slowly2018-05-09
- Delay of over a second between touch and response, sometimes no response at all2018-05-08
- Entire in-car UI is so bad it is astounding2018-05-07
- Owner runs into bugs daily in the on-screen infotainment interface2018-05-07
- Seat heating control is tiny and slow, forcing eyes off the road to find it2018-03-30
- Remote window opening works accidentally but remote closing is impossible, so you must get in2015-08-05