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# Friday, June 23, 2006

Bad Car UI

Years and years of prior art, and the recent Ford rental that I was driving in Redmond had this for a heating/cooling nob.

Badui

Tell me what this means? Basically you have two modes for AC and the one “off” location (that circle at the top) and the rest of the controls are for heat or air w/o AC.

Huh? How does that make any sense?

 

 

Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:48:51 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
This is easy, and it is how all Ford cars and trucks have been forever:

A/C = air from outside but run through the A/C
Max A/C = recirculated air from inside with A/C

In fact, the more I used Ford's, the more whigged out I got. Like my M35 -- I have no idea how to just do "vent" where I want no A/C, but I want air from outside. Instead, I have to say what temp I want, as if I know exactly what is comfortable, etc. *sigh*
Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:17:38 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I cant say for other car manufacturers but I drive a Maxda 3 and the controls in that are very good and user friendly. I can actually vent outside sir without turning on the A/C :)
-Pronob
Pronob
Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:29:38 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Well, it does make kind of sense. Those A/C units are designed to take full control on how to reach desired temperature. I hate it. On a sunny day I like to have cold air on the windshield and to the foot, but my japanese-brained A/C thinks that the best way is to shoot full load into my face. Effectively all the automatics is totally useless on hot day. What I miss is ability to freely choose some parameters and let silicon-brains to figure out the way to achieve the goal with parameters left.
Priit
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