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Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

and why do they have to be everywhere? we have an induction stove and it has capacitive buttons for some idiotic reason. so many problems! when you boil water, little drops are always landing on the buttons. and to reduce power from max to min, you need to hold the - button for like a full minute. wiping the stove with a wet towel makes it go BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP and it won't shut up! and finally, when my cats walk on the buttons, they always manage to turn it on. i miss knobs.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 points 4 months ago

Yes, so much yes. I've got that on mine too, and it's a pain. it has very small, close "buttons" too, setting the temperature is an exercise in accuracy, when it reacts at all.

And yes, the tiniest drop of water fucks everything up completely.

[–] aramova@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I'm remodeling and literally refuse to buy anything that doesn't have physical controls in the kitchen.

Fuck touch controls on everything.