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The sad answer is that those displays exist to cut costs, not to make your ownership experience better.
Also the dealers want you to come to them for that CEL, and the companies don’t want to piss off the dealers.
They make the ownership experience worse. I fucking hate mine.
I wish I could replace half of the real estate with buttons and.knobs but nooooo, I can't afford a car with such fancy craftsmanship so it's a cheap shitty screen with a cheap shitty OS instead. And everyone things it's fancy...LOL
I like my Infiniti because it has both a screen and knobs / buttons
As does my ram
Nice! I’m glad other brands are still sane. Nissan is moving towards all-screen and I think that’s my cue to leave them.
Iirc there was a push on manufacturers from the NHTSA to return to physical controls for things like HVAC and media due to safety concerns, but I don't know how official that was.
Just to throw this out there, but car dealership owners are close to the scummiest people on the planet.
Yes
They don't call them Stealerships for nothing.
My spouse used to work in the industry. I can confirm your take with first hand experience 😮💨
Why don’t the companies want to piss off the dealers? Is some Toyota dealership really gonna stop selling Toyotas because a Toyota comes out with a self-diagnosis feature?
Dealerships do a lot of absorption of supply and demand elasticity on behalf of the manufacturer. It's a symbiotic relationship.
The dealers have a shocking amount of power in the US
And most of their money comes from parts and service.