[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by BryanGT

I develop touch user interfaces for a living, and the BRZ Limited's touchscreen head-unit is a total piece of shit, here's why:

1. There physical hardware buttons (side from than the volume knob) are dedicated to functions that aren't used enough to justify a hardware button. Physical buttons can be operated without looks, and thus they should be allocated to common interactions like channel presets, or at least up/down to cycle through those presets.
2. The screen digitizer calibration sucks, it's easy to "miss" onscreen buttons. The lag between touch and response is too damn high.
3. Radio station presets and the tuning buttons are located towards the center of the screen instead of the physical edge, which aggravates gorilla arm, and forces you to take your eyes off the road to see a simple station change. Locating these soft buttons near the edge (especially near physical cues along the edge) would eliminate some of the need for the aforementioned hard buttons.

Given all that I actually agree with the dude. They made the UI so shitty that secondary physical button (on the wheel or wherever) would really improve safety.

Agreed that it's a shit UI and the touchscreen is inaccurate and slow.

However, I don't stare at it while driving and I have never felt it was unsafe to operate. I just use the next/previous for presets instead of the preset screen, put your finger over the button (takes what, .2 seconds to glance?) and leave it there until you find a channel with something good. :shrug:

Plus it's not like you can't replace the head unit if you want. Makes a lot more sense than trying to get a recall because someone is too stupid to figure out how to deal with the shitty UI.

I'd rather have a shitty UI and no steering wheel controls than a shitty UI and steering wheel controls I hate steering wheel controls. If it annoyed me that much I would simply replace the HU.