NCAP ratings can affect insurance, a lower rating will push up perceived risk and cost to insure.
I like to fiddle with knobs rather than browsing the climate pane, looking for the tab containing a widget that launches the app to adjust the footwell airflow rate and drag out the temperature side bar and select the %decrease function rotary blob......
Oh, I seem to have selected [DEPLOY AIRBAGS] + [CALL 999] By mistake, this UI experience map is very poor
Re: Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:03 am
by Hooli
Common sense from NCAP? Wonders will never cease. So much of the stuff that makes modern cars shit and ugly is their fault.
Maybe they'll realise windows you can see out of are more important than pillars so strong you can pile trucks on roof too. But somehow I doubt they'll ever get that sensible.
Re: Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:17 am
by LynehamHerc
Hooli wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:03 am
Common sense from NCAP? Wonders will never cease. So much of the stuff that makes modern cars shit and ugly and heavy and thirsty and complicated in real life is their fault.
Maybe they'll realise windows you can see out of are more important than pillars so strong you can pile trucks on roof too. But somehow I doubt they'll ever get that sensible.
Re: Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:40 am
by Hooli
Aye that's part of why they're shit.
Re: Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:07 am
by LynehamHerc
It's like NCAP is run by a group of code monkeys, we can do this therefore we will and sod any practical issues like maintainability and useability. Not everyone wants more computing power than the Apollo missions in their car, "cool" as that might be to some.
I think that there's also a degree of crossover with this:
"Germany set for 14% drop in electric-vehicle sales as carmakers scale back ambitions and demand ‘does not look good’"
Re: Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:38 pm
by Scruffy Bodger
Hooli wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:03 am
Maybe they'll realise windows you can see out of are more important than pillars so strong you can pile trucks on roof too. But somehow I doubt they'll ever get that sensible.
Even my 10 plate V50 was terrible for that, the blind spot at the A post could literally lose pedestrians and the B post meant checking over your shoulder for cars/bikes in your blind spot was physically impossible.
Having always driven old shit and even a kit car for years with a ribbon of aluminium around the windscreen the difference was blindingly obvious.
Re: Electric vehicles, pros and cons. Have your say.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:45 pm
by Scruffy Bodger
FatherJack wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:30 am
The Hip, Trendy, Youth Friendly Touchscreen that seems to plague EV's and some ICE may be under threat
NCAP ratings can affect insurance, a lower rating will push up perceived risk and cost to insure.
I like to fiddle with knobs rather than browsing the climate pane, looking for the tab containing a widget that launches the app to adjust the footwell airflow rate and drag out the temperature side bar and select the %decrease function rotary blob......
Oh, I seem to have selected [DEPLOY AIRBAGS] + [CALL 999] By mistake, this UI experience map is very poor
I was talking to someone the other night who's test driven one of the latest ones with indicators on the steering wheel and he reckoned he adapted to it very quickly, he's in his late 70's iirc? I asked what about navigating in tight city streets with traffic and pedestrians about and he went quiet.
