Maybe this is me and I'm just being anal, but...has anyone else noted the design inconsistentcy between different controls in the Tucson Hybrid?
First, and IMHO, most completely idiotic and counter-intuitive, is the arrangement of the push button gear selection. The front button is reverse and the back button is Drive. You push the forward-most button to go backwards and the rear-most to go forward. That makes absolutely zero sense, unless the designer was maybe dyslexic?
Moving on to the myriad of steering wheel controls. The left radio volume control operates as one would expect - pushing up raises the volume and down lowers it. The adjacent channel toggle is just the opposite - you push up to go to the next lower station and down to go to the next higher. Hunh? In what mixed up universe does that make sense?
Mind you, I'm very much enjoying the car, but find these counter-intuitive nuances unnecessarily inconsistent and confusing. One shouldn't need to stop and think before using a control to remember which seemingly random direction does what.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind these design choices.
First, and IMHO, most completely idiotic and counter-intuitive, is the arrangement of the push button gear selection. The front button is reverse and the back button is Drive. You push the forward-most button to go backwards and the rear-most to go forward. That makes absolutely zero sense, unless the designer was maybe dyslexic?
Moving on to the myriad of steering wheel controls. The left radio volume control operates as one would expect - pushing up raises the volume and down lowers it. The adjacent channel toggle is just the opposite - you push up to go to the next lower station and down to go to the next higher. Hunh? In what mixed up universe does that make sense?
Mind you, I'm very much enjoying the car, but find these counter-intuitive nuances unnecessarily inconsistent and confusing. One shouldn't need to stop and think before using a control to remember which seemingly random direction does what.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind these design choices.