10 Irritating Automotive Features That Should Have Been Awesome

We love forward-thinking automotive innovations, but many turn out to be nothing more than annoying gimmicks. These are the features that CTzens find incredibly irritating...

Neil Winn

08 Apr 2016

10 Irritating Automotive Features That Should Have Been Awesome

Adaptive cruise control

“Some cars just slam the brakes instead of releasing the gas when a car pulls in front of you. It gets annoying.”

Parking sensors

Suggested by: SpoolingTurbo (Jeroen Reyns)

“They annoy the f* out of me. They’re cool for the first week, but after you get used to the length of your car, they’re annoying as hell!”

Automatic windscreen wipers

“When I want them to work they don’t, and when I want them to slow down they go ballistic!”

Plastic engine covers

“Any ‘stylish’ plastic cover in the engine-bay. Especially the the ones you have to remove to change a ruddy light bulb!”

Electric seats

“Electronic moving seats are so slow! I’d rather just do it manually.”

Automatic volume control

These systems seem like a great idea, but the volume never quite adjusts how you want it to…

Stop-start technology

The early systems could be a little jerky, but the majority of manufacturers have perfected their stop-start tech. So we don’t fully agree with CTzen MikeEM.

Pop-up headlights

“Whenever you press the button, your fuel mileage goes down! (Insert hate comments here.)”

Electronic parking brake

We genuinely feel sorry for the teenagers of the future. They will never get to experience the pure unadulterated joy of pulling massive skids around their local car-park. And good luck impressing the ladies with your electronic parking brake!

Passengers

Not really a ‘feature’ as such, but we were surprised to find out how many CTzens would rather ride alone!

So, do you agree with your fellow CTzens? Are there any features you think we missed? Let us know in the comments below! You can also find our original community question here.

Comments

Parking sensors are very helpful in tight situations, moving the seat back and forth manually is better. All the other stuff is pretty nice if its electronic.
Passengers: depends on the people. There are some (not many, maybe 1 or 2) that II really like as passengers.

well, i know why you hate electric seats. because it was a torture device and who the heck has put it on the car features?

My automatic volume control works rather perfectly. It’s adjustable, as well.

Passengers haha

I love electric seats as long as they have a memory. There is nothing like getting in your car after someone else has drove it and it senses your key and automatically puts you exactly where you had it set.