Dark or light no need to look just do it.
Had a Suburban with a fake touch screen, loved the car but hated the controls you had to look at to use.
Yay!
Ashtrays? Fly windows?
Bring back vent windows and foot actuated headlight dimmers. Buick nailheads.
I want toggle switches.
And get rid of the fuel gauge. Just give me a reserve fuel tank to switch to.
The touch screen for my Kia Soul stereo is obnoxiously distracting. I’ve gotten better with it, however, so I’m not a potential menace on the road while adjusting the tuner.
New cars suck so hard.
The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature i’d like to see is, to give me my friggin WING WINDOWS BACK!!!
Saw the headline and thought it was about manually rolling down windows.
Bring back the Model A.
Any Model A.
I’m not picky.
You know what I miss on car controls?
The button near the left foot for toggling between high/low headlight beams.
I have often thought about pursuing some aftermarket solution.
Not sure Jake would be able to find any contemporary car he’d be happy with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yil9wlfa0yo
Speaking of Humble....You ‘old timers’ remember Humble gasoline?
Which became Enco and Esso, and then Exxon-then Exxon-Mobile, etc.
stick shift
Yep, my favorite car controls were our ‘66 Bonneville. Pull the mechanical light switch out to turn on headlights. Turn the switch to turn on the overhead light. Tap the floor switch for brights. Five punch keys on the radio. A radio volume and tuning knob. A slider for air temperature. Another slider for air on the face or floor. A knob for fan speed. That was it. That was the entirety of controls on a luxe car.
Oh, there were two pull knobs by your knees to open huge air doors by your feet to blown in enormous amounts of air on the freeway.
Simple, hardly any memorization required, and could be operated by feel in dead of night.
I’ve been driving my wife’s GLK Mercedes SUV for nine years and still cannot remember where everything is or what it does. Changing the fan speed is almost impossible - the buttons are the size of pinheads, located very low where you cannot see them, it’s nearly impossible to put your finger on them while driving, and they printed faint, tiny icons on black buttons set way down in the darkest part of the dashboard.
Today’s controls designers are absolutely idiots. There was a huge push for “human factors” to be implemented in nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island because the controls were confusing. The auto makers need to hire a lot of “human factors” people to really understand how people react to all the BS larded onto today’s cars.
Manual transmission.
I would love turn signals put back in cars. It seems about half of the cars on the road don’t have them.
So ... no hope for the humble rumble seat?
Front bench seats! I am SO glad I drove a ‘66 Dodge Dart when I was courting my future wife. Much friendlier.
I would like a return of the AMP gauge. Arizona cars don’t rust, but the battery lifespan is only about two years before they don’t hold a deep charge. An AMP gauge might give me a heads up as to when the battery is fading.
Touchscreens aren’t reliable.