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Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes
(arstechnica.com)
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Can confirm that these buttons on the steering wheel of the id4 are really, really dangerous bullshit. I regularly drive those cars as rentals, and I've never (not "rarely" - it's really never) faced a worse decision on buttons in any device I ever handled. Those touchpads are solely the reason I despise all VW-cars - they are complete crap. (I use these cars only for short trips and never activate any system by these buttons after encountering numerous dangerous situations as described in the article.)
I think it's Mercedes that has two mini touchpads on the steering wheel? Horrible.
They have them since a long time, and the touchpads are really nice!
I found them frustrating to use