The head unit in my CLA has become wonky. It's $4k to replace it (the screen is fine, it's something with the head unit itself... keeps rebooting and GPS wont load, in case anyone has a cheap fix that might work lol)
But what happens to these giant dashboard screens in 10, 20 years when they break? Is it even going to be cost effective to replace them?
Not just MB, but all these manufacturers going with everything digital
It’s crazy how the limiting factor for life of a car is moving towards interior bits. Battery and drivetrain may last 250k miles, but at some point your $5000 screen will fail and if it’s after ten years a replacement won’t be available.
I've never understood why the push for giant screens on the dash, but none of these cars (even high end luxury like mercedes) don't go with HUDs instead.
When people go into the showroom and see these fancy screens, enormous rims with low profile tires, the brembo brakes, all the bells and whistles, yada yada. It's not until they come see me in the service department they start complaining and longing for the simpler days when everything was simple, less complicated, less expensive. I usually don't have any sympathy. This is exactly what you signed up for when you bought it. Sure looked nice when you bought it, eh?
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[Like this high quality silver-painted plastic trim here that undoubtedly will creak when you pull and push on it to open your door](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/pre-media-25c0225-065-68b9de1416af1.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.918xh;0,0.0179xh&resize=980:*)
Some of the ‘silver’ plastic trim/piping on my Mercedes has got to the peeling stage and now is like a razor blade and has caused a few cuts to date. I’m half thinking of sanding it down.
Why does this need to be regulated out, the escalade/eqs/Lincoln are no more dangerous to drive than a standard car
The only difference is both your CarPlay & instrument cluster are lighter, and that your passenger gets to watch some YouTube or something.
Most consumers love the big screens in new Mercedes, I work at a Mercedes dealership and most people prefer the new hyperscreen on the E class over the GLE’s infotainment.
Yeah like the sales data overwhelmingly shows consumers want more screens and bigger screens.
My 2024 KIA Sportage has what I would consider the largest amount of screen size I would ever want. But I'm sure in 5 years time it's going to be on the small size in terms of how big the screens have gotten on the interior of cars.
This isn’t really a regulations situation. If the screens cause more accidents insurance premiums on those vehicles will rise, lawsuits will target makers and manufacturers will respond accordingly.
I’d rather we find ways to meaningfully target cellphone use while driving
If that was the case modern airplanes wouldn't had them.
An Airbus a350 cockpit has multiple big screens to watch.
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Apples to oranges comparison.
Excluding takeoffs and landings, pilots have plenty of time to look around the cabin to make adjustments for flight controls.
They aren't dealing with intersections every block and drivers changing lanes every minute.
But will it actually make it to production as one big screen? Or will it be like the EQS Hyperscreen where it’s three separate screens surrounded by super thick black bezels?
I've gotta say, it looks much cleaner than Lincoln's weird solution, or even the 2/3rds wraparound screen that every other German car has now. In for a penny, in for a pound - I accept that cars are like this now.
But we could also, you know... *not* do a screen. Maybe we *don't* have to pull focus from the road, or even use controls that go dark at night.
CarPlay is sort of necessary for consumer interest at this point, but I really wish some carmakers would put an OLED in the gauge cluster and do nothing else, in the style of the 3rd generation Audi TT.
Because more car buyers in these days don't care buttons anymore and all want huge touch screen, high techs, and interesting features.
Specially, Chinese car buyers love that, so Merc needs to respond that for this.
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