You can pretty much get any normal-sized car, and spec it up to a very high level, with all the electronic and connectivity gizmos you could possibly want. You get a touchscreen in so many cars today, and parking sensors, and a backup camera and many buttons and design touches neatly integrated into the general functionality of a cabin.
Cars are getting reliable too, and very few are hideous to look at also, so we wonder is there anything bugging modern car owners?
Actually, there is, and it has to do with poor design choices, which hamper practicality and functionality, unintuitive gadgets and gizmos, buggy software, slaggy touchscreens, poor voice recognition and other similar problems.
For instance, people have trouble pairing their phone via Bluetooth, and the manual just isn’t cutting it. These people will drive up to the dealership with their iPhone that cannot connect, but discover that the problem is with the phone’s own software that needs to be updated, and not the car’s fault – it will then be filed as a complaint.
Finally, the brands with the least problems in this area are Porsche and GMC, with 80 and 90 problems per 100 vehicles respectively. This is lower than the industry average, according to a recent J.D. Power study, which puts it at 113 problems per 100 vehicles, a number that in itself sounds quite high…
By Andrei Nedelea
Story References: Forbes
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