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minus-square@Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoEvery car I’ve ever bought had had glaringly terrible design choices that make it obvious nobody in development actually drove the car. This has got to be one of the worst examples of that though.
minus-square@TheCodeJanitor@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoHas this as a rental car a few years ago… guess which knob I kept reaching for to turn down the volume…
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoThat’s the same kind of idiocy that killed Anton Yelchin.
minus-square@buran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoThat vehicle had a recall out to replace the badly-designed shifter. It was ignored. The fix would have been free.
minus-square@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoThat doesn’t excuse the fact that the design was clearly idiotic in the extreme from its inception.
Every car I’ve ever bought had had glaringly terrible design choices that make it obvious nobody in development actually drove the car. This has got to be one of the worst examples of that though.
Has this as a rental car a few years ago… guess which knob I kept reaching for to turn down the volume…
That’s the same kind of idiocy that killed Anton Yelchin.
That vehicle had a recall out to replace the badly-designed shifter. It was ignored.
The fix would have been free.
That doesn’t excuse the fact that the design was clearly idiotic in the extreme from its inception.