IDK, I prefer my boring old UX of 'physical buttons on a dashboard', plus it's a lot easier to interact with without taking your eyes off the road ;)
To each their own I guess
I guess this could be avoided by using "Do open" or "Is open". Would this sound off to a native speaker?
In English you can also form an adjective from the past participle ("this door is opened"). Using "opened" resolves the ambiguity in one direction only: when you want the adjective. But when you want the verb you'd have to add context: perhaps "tap to open".
All it needs is "Closed - tap to open"
List of features I want:
- automatic transmission (if ICE)
- bluetooth and FM radio
- no self steering
- cruise control with "follow speed"
- not-batshit-insane self-brake-system (use whatever Volvo uses, it works!)
- good airbags and decent structural integrity
- classic sedan height
If I'm reading you right, you want your car to follow the speed of the car in front of you? Usually delivered by radar assisted cruise control?
That's complicated stuff, and you'll probably get lane keeping assistance too, because it's a package. At least on my car with lane keeping, there's a big button in the center console to disable it.
You can easily turn lane keeping assistance off in my car. I guess it is necessary, because lane assistance massively sux when there is reconstruction. They are not really the same hardware wise, one of them requires radar in front and other camera thingy for lanes.
Thankfully it can be turned off, and it stays off.
I suspect you have no idea if OP's feature set is available on the market. I certainly do not.
Though sedans are a dying breed, so I'd get one sooner rather than later. Everyone and their brother wants SUVs/CUVs and sedan offerings are getting slimer by the month.
And as for the more complicated hardware, I am afraid that ship has sailed.
Cars have become incredibly complex in the last couple of decades. They are covered in sensors and filled with computers to handle everything, from the injection of fuel and shifting to acceleration and braking to infotainment and climate control.
If you want Cruise Control with distance following that means you get brake-by-wire and accelerator-by-wire with a computer making decisions about when to do both.
You cannot eat your cake and have it too.
If you want a simpler car, then look to the 90's - they still had computers, but obviously the technology was more limited. You won't get radar cruise control or much in the way of blutooth though, obviously. You can still have an automatic sedan with pretty good safety. (Not as good as modern, but decent)
Almost every manufacture has committed AEB on their entire lineup.
Plus, you can turn it off.
You can always turn off lane control too.