achkually your title is wrong because it was never improved upon.
I have this and I will not change.
How fast do you want it, how hot do you want it, where do you want it
I wish more companies did this.
The larger temperature controls and the vertically, slightly curved stack make so much sense to me.
This must be a Honda Fit interior, right? I still wish I had managed to snag one of those, but they are probably double the price of other used hatches where I am. Ah well.
My 2016 doesn’t look like that. Must be a different gen.
This is the dash on my 2012 Honda Fit sport. Never thought the internet might be jealous of my car…
Apparently I don’t know how to upload an image on my instance
2011 Fit. Great car. Got only 110k on it.
I love my Fit, it’s a 2012 and a manual transmission, I will drive it for as long as I possibly can.
Treasure it! Not looking forwards to when I have to give up my manual hatch for whatever is on the market when it dies. Although I haven’t test driven an EV yet, I can’t imagine it’s that engaging. Perhaps I’ll just have to get my kicks out of motorbikes at that point.
Let me play devils advocate……
One of my cars has the hvac controls on the screen and it’s usually fine, because it is actually smart. I only need to set the temperature and it remembers that.
For example now that it’s getting cold, I almost never need to touch those controls
- I can preheat through an app (no subscription needed)
- when I start my car, the thermostat is set to 69 (heh heh) where I last left it
- the car goes through a progression: heating steering wheel and seat first, then automatically off when the cabin temperature comes up
- the glaring problem is defroster. Aside from initial heat up I don’t know a good way to switch to that while driving. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be automatic and fails or if there is a shortcut somewhere
So long as the vents have analog dials that manipulate how much air is coming out. Otherwise I’d have to be pro left/right temperature difference. When it’s 100 degrees out side and someone says the AC is to cold it blows my mind
If there is 100 degrees, your water boils.
Then the a/c can’t be too cold!
Probably means 100 degrees of Freedom° units no C°
He should have said so! He may as well measure distance in bananas or area in stadiums 😂
Celsius is near useless as well, you can’t use it for anything without converting it to kelvins first. Both F and C are “because we use it and it’s familiar”. 100 degrees we should have said your blood is already frozen! Turn the heat on
Celsius is near useless
Found a USian 🤦
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
There is in fact 100 degrees. 360 degrees if you can believe it.
When it’s 100F or higher, there is no such thing as AC too cold.
There is such a thing as the AC being to cold. When I turn it all the way down in my car it’s like being inside a freezer. It legitimately starts to hurt where it blows on your skin after a while. Same with the heat though, it gets so hot that you burn yourself if you touch the vents.
I miss my old car where the engine was so small it got up to temp in minutes even in -30 and the airflow was so direct it felt like it was burning your hands if you aimed it right at the steering wheel
Yeah, I’ve got a 2.3L engine and the heater gets warm by the time I leave the driveway. Strangely enough the 1.2L engine in my moms car takes forever.
huh. the 1.4L in my old car is what I was referring to
my current 2.5L takes forever in comparison, so did my last 2.0L (Mazda3)
You know you can adjustt the temperature AND air flow, right? You can blast the air to accelerate to the desired temperature and then dial back on the air flow and temperature to keep the car actually pleasent. I only say this because i have a friend who cranks the heat full blast in the winter and then rolls down his windows while still max blasting the heating! Dude has serious brain worms.
you don’t do that?
having the window down in the winter for the fresh cool air over your face and chest while blowing heat on your feet and hands feels great
I live in Northern Ohio 40 minutes from Lake Erie. We have COLD winters here with wet air. Plus, my shitty soft top VW Bug with a busted window lets in more than enough cold air
Iol I’m in Ontario, similar weather. I still love the feeling of the cold air on my face. but tbf I get stuffy in cars if there isn’t fresh air coming in
I know someone who does this as well, mostly because he always drives with his arm hanging out the window lmfao
Lol, yes, automatic vents are only beginning to get good (and are far from prefect).
For me it’s def not something you set only once. Witch is a fail by default.
I haven’t owned a new car in my life so I can’t say what they are now, but if it comes with a witch inside, I have to say I’d set them free. Lol
No, the witch is for private data only.
This works well and it’s not a hill I’ll defend but automatic control of temperature is better when it’s done well. In the UK we have a culture of driving cars with manual transmission and I’ve never understood it when automatic transmissions exist and are pretty good. People wanna feel like they are in control of stuff.
Not sure about the UK, but I know Germany likes manuals because they last longer when you have a lot of hills and mountains.
Well, as a kid I thought by the time I’ll do my driver’s license there will be no more manual transmissions around.
Turns out, automatic is just still way more expensive to buy AND, as I recently learned, crazy expensive in maintenance.
It’s about 5-10% more in the UK. The maintenance on a reliable transmission is fairly minimal but any mechanical problems are almost guaranteed to be a nightmare buried under a mountain of metal. I’ve been spared that trauma so far but I remember test driving a used VW Passat which clunked with every shift. Thanks for the test drive, bro.
I like electric, because fuel and maintenance is so cheap
I should do a video on the bad UX in the Mach E.
RETVRN
My car is still mainly like this.
It has a touchscreen thing but it’s only for the entertainment and it has steering wheel controls as well so there’s an alternative to using the screen while driving.
I want to set my hvac to a temp and let it sort out whether it should heat or cool.
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The only complaint I have with this is that you can’t control which vents are open when you turn on front defrost. I prefer a button for each vent.
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It’s -5C/23F outside, you hop in the car, winter boots and thermal layers. Your climate control’s lowest setting is 16C/61F. You have two options: personal sweaty sauna or drive in your winter jacket with frozen hands.
Other options: blast heat with windows down. Full AC, just get it over with.
I always just freeze while the car warms up. Driving with a jacket on is an absolute no-go. I see so many people do it and I don’t understand how, it’s restrictive and you will inevitably start to bake when the sun hits you.
It’s difficult to take thermals(wool under-layers) off/on for a regular car ride. Just let me set temps down to 5C or something even if the AC couldn’t achieve that in California.
You’re opposed to stripping butt naked in the parking lot?
I’m not wealthy enough to own a car that has anything newer than this lmao
Fuck that, give me a thermostat any day of the week.
Never letting go of it.
