Capacitive steering wheel buttons
Discussion
A little rant.
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to put capacitive buttons on a steering wheel.
I’ve had my Mercedes E Class for 2 months now and they’re driving me nuts. 24 little buttons of pure annoyance to be exact.
No matter how hard I try, I change the radio, volume or menu on every single trip. Then spend several more button presses trying to figure out what the hell I actually accidentally pressed.
Don’t get me wrong, buttons on a steering wheel are OK, last car had several, but you had to physically press them. This just requires the slightest of wafts from a finger.
Not sure how to reduce the problem, at least with the annoying ADAS systems you can turn them off. How do you stop these from activating at the slightest brush of a digit?
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to put capacitive buttons on a steering wheel.
I’ve had my Mercedes E Class for 2 months now and they’re driving me nuts. 24 little buttons of pure annoyance to be exact.
No matter how hard I try, I change the radio, volume or menu on every single trip. Then spend several more button presses trying to figure out what the hell I actually accidentally pressed.
Don’t get me wrong, buttons on a steering wheel are OK, last car had several, but you had to physically press them. This just requires the slightest of wafts from a finger.
Not sure how to reduce the problem, at least with the annoying ADAS systems you can turn them off. How do you stop these from activating at the slightest brush of a digit?
Ham_and_Jam said:
A little rant.
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to put capacitive buttons on a steering wheel.
I ve had my Mercedes E Class for 2 months now and they re driving me nuts. 24 little buttons of pure annoyance to be exact.
No matter how hard I try, I change the radio, volume or menu on every single trip. Then spend several more button presses trying to figure out what the hell I actually accidentally pressed.
Don t get me wrong, buttons on a steering wheel are OK, last car had several, but you had to physically press them. This just requires the slightest of wafts from a finger.
Not sure how to reduce the problem, at least with the annoying ADAS systems you can turn them off. How do you stop these from activating at the slightest brush of a digit?
I've got the same steering wheel and found it a similar nuisance. To be honest though, you just kind of get used to it.Who the hell thought it was a good idea to put capacitive buttons on a steering wheel.
I ve had my Mercedes E Class for 2 months now and they re driving me nuts. 24 little buttons of pure annoyance to be exact.
No matter how hard I try, I change the radio, volume or menu on every single trip. Then spend several more button presses trying to figure out what the hell I actually accidentally pressed.
Don t get me wrong, buttons on a steering wheel are OK, last car had several, but you had to physically press them. This just requires the slightest of wafts from a finger.
Not sure how to reduce the problem, at least with the annoying ADAS systems you can turn them off. How do you stop these from activating at the slightest brush of a digit?
Ham_and_Jam said:
This one with the double row of buttons?
No matter how I adapt, I just keep catching the top right buttons.
It's a huge step backwards for the sake of progress, but I'm sure they will disappear soon.
MikeM6 said:
It's a huge step backwards for the sake of progress, but I'm sure they will disappear soon.
It's cheaper, that's the driving force I am sure. A lot of cars are having a lot of cost stripped out of them that most customers don't notice or care about but I think these dreadful controls are a step too far.Doesn't help that the wheel looks s
t too.GeniusOfLove said:
It's cheaper, that's the driving force I am sure. A lot of cars are having a lot of cost stripped out of them that most customers don't notice or care about but I think these dreadful controls are a step too far.
Doesn't help that the wheel looks st too.
I don’t mind the look of it, no more offensive than most of my previous steering wheels, but the implementation of the buttons is woeful.Doesn't help that the wheel looks s
t too.GeniusOfLove said:
MikeM6 said:
It's a huge step backwards for the sake of progress, but I'm sure they will disappear soon.
It's cheaper, that's the driving force I am sure. A lot of cars are having a lot of cost stripped out of them that most customers don't notice or care about but I think these dreadful controls are a step too far.Doesn't help that the wheel looks s
t too.I had a Cupra Born for 2 days as a courtesy car whilst my Formentor (with identically positioned, but physical buttons) was in for service/recall work and the haptic buttons drove me mad.
Yes, I am sure you would 'get used to it' but blimey, it was hugely frustrating. I was changing the volume and radio station at nearly every turn of the wheel.
Yes, I am sure you would 'get used to it' but blimey, it was hugely frustrating. I was changing the volume and radio station at nearly every turn of the wheel.
What you need is some nice Alan Partridge driving gloves...
Most gloves don't operate capacitive touchscreens so presumably wouldn't work with these stupid steering wheel buttons either.
Alternatively drive with your hands in the wrong position on the wheel the whole time like the development testers must have done for this abomination to have reached production.
Most gloves don't operate capacitive touchscreens so presumably wouldn't work with these stupid steering wheel buttons either.
Alternatively drive with your hands in the wrong position on the wheel the whole time like the development testers must have done for this abomination to have reached production.
SkodaIan said:
What you need is some nice Alan Partridge driving gloves...
Most gloves don't operate capacitive touchscreens so presumably wouldn't work with these stupid steering wheel buttons either.
Alternatively drive with your hands in the wrong position on the wheel the whole time like the development testers must have done for this abomination to have reached production.
I’m seriously thinking about covering the most caught button with something, maybe a bit of black tape.Most gloves don't operate capacitive touchscreens so presumably wouldn't work with these stupid steering wheel buttons either.
Alternatively drive with your hands in the wrong position on the wheel the whole time like the development testers must have done for this abomination to have reached production.
I don’t change the use of that button, so don’t need it once set.
SkodaIan said:
What you need is some nice Alan Partridge driving gloves...
Most gloves don't operate capacitive touchscreens so presumably wouldn't work with these stupid steering wheel buttons either.
Doesn’t work. Just tried covering the button (slider) with insulation tape, didn’t work. Micro fibre cloth, didn’t work. Card, didn’t work.Most gloves don't operate capacitive touchscreens so presumably wouldn't work with these stupid steering wheel buttons either.
Finally stopped it detecting the presence of a finger and altering the settings with some thick microfiber cloth folded 4 layers thick, was probably about 1cm deep, and looked stupid and would catch when turning.
Very surprised its able to detect so far through insulating materials.
Back to the drawing board…
Ham_and_Jam said:
Doesn t work. Just tried covering the button (slider) with insulation tape, didn t work. Micro fibre cloth, didn t work. Card, didn t work.
Finally stopped it detecting the presence of a finger and altering the settings with some thick microfiber cloth folded 4 layers thick, was probably about 1cm deep, and looked stupid and would catch when turning.
Very surprised its able to detect so far through insulating materials.
Back to the drawing board
Try something electrically conductive, like that foil insulation tapeFinally stopped it detecting the presence of a finger and altering the settings with some thick microfiber cloth folded 4 layers thick, was probably about 1cm deep, and looked stupid and would catch when turning.
Very surprised its able to detect so far through insulating materials.
Back to the drawing board
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