BRZ complaint

[swaq]

I know they will be offering this in the next model year but that leaves about 100000 of these unsafe brzs on the road with distracted driving issues.

Wow, I didn't know they had already built 100,000 BRZs...

[raptor87]

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. Their physical hardware buttons (aside 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 looking, 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 buttons (on the wheel or wherever) would really improve safety.

I agree, coming from a pioneer double din on my last car the interface on this is very badly designed and not very touch friendly.

[kuhlka]

Originally Posted by Wilsonk227

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pretty sure it's coming up though, this was discussed in another thread before. It will have SWC in the future, no doubt about it

That's one fugly set of buttons. No thanks. I'll just replace the head unit when I have the spare cash to throw at a whole new setup.

[Ganthrithor]

I used my radio... once, on a road trip.

I don't really use the radio. On the BRZ it's sometimes tempting because the car doesn't sound that good, but then again, nor does our sound system.

That comment linked in the op is downsy as fuck. What an idiot. If can't figure out a safe way / time to fiddle with your bad touchscreen, then don't fiddle with your touchscreen. It's not complicated.