You just need one touch screen that does everything. Radio, climate control, navigation, car settings etc etc. even with cheap nobs you needed separate ones for everything, you needed the mounting for them and everything you can’t see behind them. It might not be cheaper than replacing one thing, but once you combine everything into it it becomes cheaper.
I HATE the automation in my '14 Lincoln. The environment control use ambient temperature settings. So if it’s hot as balls inside the car and you set the temp to 68, it’ll blast some cold air until it detects that temp, then start spitting “room temperature” air which is absolutely miserable in the dead ass middle of summer.
Give me back a knob with controls the temperature of air it’s spitting out! Which means if the AC at Max starts getting too cold then I’ll turn the knob a click or 2.
You just need one touch screen that does everything. Radio, climate control, navigation, car settings etc etc. even with cheap nobs you needed separate ones for everything, you needed the mounting for them and everything you can’t see behind them. It might not be cheaper than replacing one thing, but once you combine everything into it it becomes cheaper.
I HATE the automation in my '14 Lincoln. The environment control use ambient temperature settings. So if it’s hot as balls inside the car and you set the temp to 68, it’ll blast some cold air until it detects that temp, then start spitting “room temperature” air which is absolutely miserable in the dead ass middle of summer.
Give me back a knob with controls the temperature of air it’s spitting out! Which means if the AC at Max starts getting too cold then I’ll turn the knob a click or 2.
Indeed. It might not be cheaper to manufacture, it might just be cheaper to assemble.