<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>Even though my 2019 Subaru is covered in screens, it also has physical knobs and buttons for the volume, air conditioning, and changing between radio station presets. I usually find that I don&amp;#x27;t have to touch the touchscreen on an average car trip.</text><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>&amp;gt;Do cars even come without &amp;#x27;smart&amp;#x27; options nowadays?&lt;p&gt;This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates&lt;/a&gt;). Now that a screen is required, it&amp;#x27;s harder to financially justify putting in a head unit that includes physical dials. Instead we&amp;#x27;re stuck with crap like &amp;quot;find the button for volume on the screen, then tap it 15 times to adequately adjust it&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m hanging on to my 2011 Honda Civic for the foreseeable future, and pray the UI won&amp;#x27;t suck on newer vehicles or find a basic trim 2016-2018 that doesn&amp;#x27;t do everything on the screen.&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the safety aspect, but hate the UI of every car I&amp;#x27;ve interacted with.&lt;p&gt;Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn&amp;#x27;t suck?</text></item><item><author>dugditches</author><text>Do cars even come without &amp;#x27;smart&amp;#x27; options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio&amp;#x2F;without a screen? That can be removed or replaced?&lt;p&gt;I just wonder if this &amp;#x27;smart tech&amp;#x27; will become like when you find a CD changer in the trunk of a car. Except these smart dashes won&amp;#x27;t be easily removable&amp;#x2F;swappable like an old cassette deck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink</title><url>https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjwright</author><text>In the economy space, my vote is for the most recent stuff from Hyundai&amp;#x2F;Kia. Not the world&amp;#x27;s greatest system but the latest stuff is very responsive (i.e. no UI lag) and their implementation of CarPlay&amp;#x2F;Android Auto is fairly bulletproof. (Good quality touchscreen, well positioned for finger input, doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything too stupid to make CP&amp;#x2F;AA frustrating.)&lt;p&gt;In the premium space, BMW has always maintained a medium-high bar with recent iterations of iDrive. (There have been many revisions and trim variations of their system, but approximate rule of thumb for acceptable tech is 8+ inch screen, 2013 onwards.) It&amp;#x27;s not going to wow a UI nerd, but if you plan to own the car for multiple years, it&amp;#x27;s slick and effortless once you&amp;#x27;re familiar with it—especially as almost any menu item anywhere in the system can be programmed to one of the 8 or so preset buttons on the dashboard.&lt;p&gt;I therefore have dedicated buttons in my car for &amp;quot;Call my wife&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Trip computer details&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Open destination address book&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Spoken directions on&amp;#x2F;off&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Begin navigating to home.&amp;quot; And if you think that will get too complicated too quickly, BMW thought of that: each preset button has a capacitive sensor in them so if you place your finger on the button without pressing, the screen will remind you what that button is programmed to do. It&amp;#x27;s nice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>&amp;gt;Do cars even come without &amp;#x27;smart&amp;#x27; options nowadays?&lt;p&gt;This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates&lt;/a&gt;). Now that a screen is required, it&amp;#x27;s harder to financially justify putting in a head unit that includes physical dials. Instead we&amp;#x27;re stuck with crap like &amp;quot;find the button for volume on the screen, then tap it 15 times to adequately adjust it&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m hanging on to my 2011 Honda Civic for the foreseeable future, and pray the UI won&amp;#x27;t suck on newer vehicles or find a basic trim 2016-2018 that doesn&amp;#x27;t do everything on the screen.&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the safety aspect, but hate the UI of every car I&amp;#x27;ve interacted with.&lt;p&gt;Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn&amp;#x27;t suck?</text></item><item><author>dugditches</author><text>Do cars even come without &amp;#x27;smart&amp;#x27; options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio&amp;#x2F;without a screen? That can be removed or replaced?&lt;p&gt;I just wonder if this &amp;#x27;smart tech&amp;#x27; will become like when you find a CD changer in the trunk of a car. Except these smart dashes won&amp;#x27;t be easily removable&amp;#x2F;swappable like an old cassette deck.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink</title><url>https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md</url></story>