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Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Every car I've ever bought had had glaringly terrible design choices that make it obvious nobody in development actually drove the car. This has got to be one of the worst examples of that though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Has this as a rental car a few years ago... guess which knob I kept reaching for to turn down the volume...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's the same kind of idiocy that killed Anton Yelchin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That vehicle had a recall out to replace the badly-designed shifter. It was ignored.

The fix would have been free.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

That doesn’t excuse the fact that the design was clearly idiotic in the extreme from its inception.