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
“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 would be great if there was a one touch button to turn it off or on. Because I do see the benefit in certain tight spots, but in my own yard it would just be annoying …
One car I drove some while ago has the weirdest start stop feature. If you take your foot of the clutch with gear in neutral it would kill the engine, unless you took of your seatbelt before taking the foot of the clutch. So if you want the engine to keep running, take off your seatbelt and then take your foot of the clutch … That was just a ridicolous feature …
So let’s see if anyone knows what kind of car I’m talking about ^^
I did rent a Jeep Renegade that outright refused to release the parking brake until I put my belt on. Only wanted to move the bloody thing forward a foot!
My driving school car had start-stop, and every single time the first thing my driving teacher would do upon getting into the car was deactivating “that waste of dashboard space”.
Am I the only one who likes classic manual gauges better than the screens more and more cars get behind the wheel?
I mean, sure, you can customize it, but if the screen has a tiny error you’re left without a tach, speedo, fuel-gauge and what not.
When you see it