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by chakintosh 1605 days ago
It's quite telling the fact I needed a 3 paragraph reply from a user on HN to explain to me how to use the odometers and lights in my car.

I had a Tucson before this Volvo and it was just so intuitive and easy to use. It's something that needs to be standardized, they are tools that no car would be street legal without and thus, should have identical interactions no matter the manufacturer.

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I'm confident you could have found all the information contained in those paragraphs in the manual if you had read it instead of complaining on HN.
I did actually look up the manual that's in the User Guide menu in the infotainment system and there is no mention of how to operate those things ...
OTOH, maybe the other problem is that you're buying cars too frequently to be willing to study the manual.

There are plenty of times when ergonomics and feature discoverability are at odds, and I heavily prioritize ergonomics when I'm driving a large, lethal object at super-human speeds.