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> Developing software in particular has flummoxed VW.

This is reminding me of Motorola, or really any of the old cell phone companies that were blown away by Apple and smart phones. It was easier to get a company that was good at software to make phones, than it was to make a company that was good at phones to make software.

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I’ve just rented a toyota and it’s comical. How people keep buying this???

Car is perfectly fine (despite being an anaemic ICE), but damn fix your UX.

People shit on Teslas touchscreen, but buttons on your Toyotas are worse - smaller, crowded and hard to discern.

Audio connectivity feels designed by lawyers who wish you to crash car as quickly as possible (thinking about this loud - maybe it’s a good thing, like the tullock spike?)

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I've got a Stellantis vehicle (admittedly, a higher trim one) and my girlfriend has a Model Y. I absolutely HATE driving the Model Y. Tesla's UX is far, far worse. The main thing I interact with in my car is CarPlay. Simple things CarPlay does well (making and receiving calls, providing directions, voice to text, playing music/podcasts, etc.) Tesla fails at and that's most of what a car UX is for these days.

I will literally never get a car without CarPlay. But even excepting that, Tesla's UI mostly sucks.

The answer to shitty buttons isn't shove it all 3 layers deep in a touch screen menu, it's better buttons.

I haven't tried Stellantis (though MB I've drove 2 years ago was awful), but CarPlay has nothing against Tesla. Maybe you are not used to it, but after a while craplay feels like a joke. Sure, Siri and custom apps is nice, but maps and its UX is just unbelievably behind.
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