Subj : Re: New Mazda
To   : esc
From : Blue White
Date : Fri May 26 2023 09:14 am

-=> esc wrote to Blue White <=-

 es> If I have to use a touchscreen to mess with the climate control....lol.
 es> I hope more OEMs start going back to hardware buttons for the critical
 es> things.

I had a 2013 Ford Fussion with the touchscreen (with a "Powered by
Microsoft" logo on the bezel).  It was ok when it was working right.
However, it had a bad way of just turning the climate control on when I was
not touching the screen.  I was driving down the highway one day and it
kicked the defrost on full fan and full HOT.  It was one of those days
where it was not cold enough to have heat on, and not hot enough to need
the A/C, but it was warm enough that having HOT air blowing in my face was
not at all pleasant.

Whenever it did this, you could not turn it off.  You had to find a place
to pull over, turn off the car, pull the key out of the ignition, and then
wait a couple of seconds before restarting.  Considering that they'd had
touchscreens in their cars for a few years by that point, you'd think that
bugs like that would be ironed out by then.

Once, I experienced what is apparently the Ford/M$ version of the "blue
screen of death."  IIRC, a couple of years later, they switched the system
to be powered by a non-M$ OS.

Otherwise, I really liked the car, so I traded it on a 2016 model that
didn't have the touchscreen.  I had driven one on a long enough business
trip to realize I liked that a lot more.  :)




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