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Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes (arstechnica.com)

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[-] blarth@thelemmy.club -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How would these be causing crashes? The ID.4 has a few cruise control buttons on the left side of the steering wheel. They are push buttons, but you can swipe the speed up or down to change it to the next 5 MPH. The resume button is not capacitive as the article states, you have to push it. Once again, this seems like people not wanting to take responsibility for their own lack of attention while driving and blaming it on the tech in the vehicle.

[-] StThicket@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

I've got a ID4 and they are all capacitive buttons. It makes a tactile vibration when engaged.

I hate my car. Nice to drive, but awful to use.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 months ago

I have one too. The only part of the cruise control system that is capacitive is the speed up and down. Love it.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

According to the article there is a “resume” button for the cruise control.

No idea because I don’t own one of these, but if it’s true that’s insane.

I’ve driven a lot of cars from a lot of different manufacturers, and have never encountered a resume button that works how the article describes, where it will accelerate you to whatever the last cruise control speed was.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

That's how every cruise system I've ever used works.

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