I have driven a TM3 for a year now. For me it's way less annoying then sitting into a car with sea of buttons.
It has been one of those "it would seem annoying until you actually get to try it" experiences.
It has been one of those "it would seem annoying until you actually get to try it" experiences.
But with each update, they UI gets objectively worse. They keep putting more and more things behind menus requiring multiple taps, making them incredibly annoying and dangerous to use while driving.
My biggest gripes:
- rear seat warmers require two nested menus to access. They aren't controllable from the main HVAC slide up, even though the seat diagram is still right there.
- mute/unmute turn-by-turn directions used to be a one click operation. Now it's hidden behind a hard-to-tap menu.
- turn signals
- high/low beam (tho automation has gotten quite good)
- wipers (automation still not as good as the 2003 Saab I had)
- cruise control speed and distance
- PDR
- media volume, play/pause, previous/next
- voice control activation (voice control is pretty bad tho, even worse than siri I guess)
- window control for all windows
- hazards
- honk
Climate control is fine via screen, tho activating windshield max-defog could be valuable as a separate button (can be programmed as an always on shortcut tho).
But please, let's have climate and volume as 2 physical dials. I promise, I'll be forever grateful, and I won't ever ask for anything more ever again. Just two dials.