DB Go Rex
Prominent Member
Spent some more time with my Trophy facelift car, and I’m struggling with the software in general. It makes me sad.
So imagine you are driving the car for the first few times, familiar with EVs, you look down to check speed and confirm what regen level is selected to see this:
Is it just me, or is this just a mess? Why is there so much density of information here? Why is the extended trip meter information a permanent feature on a grey/white low contrast background? Why have we got about four different fonts of varying sizes? (I’m stopped here, so the tiny mph display in the middle is dashed out, but that’s in another jaunty font of its own).
Why do I need to know the actual amps and volts whilst driving and we fail to get the Kw worked out for us whilst actually charging? That’s detail where it’s not needed and missing where it is needed. I mean motor speed is cool, but is it really necessary in the default mode? Actual speed should have been right in the middle, not off the the left side. Someone make this make sense.
The regen indicator, if you squint, is the tiny little circle next to the tiny battery percentage indicator. But why? Most manufacturers have this in the logical place - right along side the regen/power indicator (at the right) as large blocked bars as that’s what it actually applies to.
Whilst driving, and something happens, like you get to near a lane edge, this display mode shifts to a mode which shows next-to-nothing other than the MG pilot lane /distance gauge, and then takes an eternity to move back to this mode. That’s not good. A separate mode for that is fine (maybe when you have cruise enabled) but not as an unwanted intrusion.
What’s also not good is that some information that you’d want on there, like temperature, isn’t, and is instead in tiny characters on the infotainment unit which is out of line of sight. There is also no low temp alert, which makes its absence even worse. There is also some strange choices around the charging information. When you get below about 10% you lose the range estimate in the instrument binnacle, and yet it is still secretly calculating, as it can be seen on the infotainment unit if you select that mode - so why decide to hide it from the driver in this critical moment?
Talking of the charging info in the infotainment, who decided this looked good?
If the car was plugged in, there is more misaligned text squeezed on to that charge bar. Make it clearer and line the stuff up.
Moving on to the safety systems…
MG Pilot. The adaptive cruise works ok, but that’s where it ends. I’d say the lane assist stuff is actually dangerous. What is really shocking is that Euro NCAP are awarding points based on the existence of these systems, but there is apparently little real world safety testing happening.
Twice this morning on country roads the system decided that it was safer for me to be automatically veering into the direction of an oncoming car rather than getting too close to a verge. That is not ok. When you add the slightly unsettled nature of the bouncing suspension to the occasions where the system irrationally grabs the wheel, you have a very nervous car that feels like it’s on the edge.
Apart from that, I love it.
Everyone like theirs?
So imagine you are driving the car for the first few times, familiar with EVs, you look down to check speed and confirm what regen level is selected to see this:
Is it just me, or is this just a mess? Why is there so much density of information here? Why is the extended trip meter information a permanent feature on a grey/white low contrast background? Why have we got about four different fonts of varying sizes? (I’m stopped here, so the tiny mph display in the middle is dashed out, but that’s in another jaunty font of its own).
Why do I need to know the actual amps and volts whilst driving and we fail to get the Kw worked out for us whilst actually charging? That’s detail where it’s not needed and missing where it is needed. I mean motor speed is cool, but is it really necessary in the default mode? Actual speed should have been right in the middle, not off the the left side. Someone make this make sense.
The regen indicator, if you squint, is the tiny little circle next to the tiny battery percentage indicator. But why? Most manufacturers have this in the logical place - right along side the regen/power indicator (at the right) as large blocked bars as that’s what it actually applies to.
Whilst driving, and something happens, like you get to near a lane edge, this display mode shifts to a mode which shows next-to-nothing other than the MG pilot lane /distance gauge, and then takes an eternity to move back to this mode. That’s not good. A separate mode for that is fine (maybe when you have cruise enabled) but not as an unwanted intrusion.
What’s also not good is that some information that you’d want on there, like temperature, isn’t, and is instead in tiny characters on the infotainment unit which is out of line of sight. There is also no low temp alert, which makes its absence even worse. There is also some strange choices around the charging information. When you get below about 10% you lose the range estimate in the instrument binnacle, and yet it is still secretly calculating, as it can be seen on the infotainment unit if you select that mode - so why decide to hide it from the driver in this critical moment?
Talking of the charging info in the infotainment, who decided this looked good?
If the car was plugged in, there is more misaligned text squeezed on to that charge bar. Make it clearer and line the stuff up.
Moving on to the safety systems…
MG Pilot. The adaptive cruise works ok, but that’s where it ends. I’d say the lane assist stuff is actually dangerous. What is really shocking is that Euro NCAP are awarding points based on the existence of these systems, but there is apparently little real world safety testing happening.
Twice this morning on country roads the system decided that it was safer for me to be automatically veering into the direction of an oncoming car rather than getting too close to a verge. That is not ok. When you add the slightly unsettled nature of the bouncing suspension to the occasions where the system irrationally grabs the wheel, you have a very nervous car that feels like it’s on the edge.
Apart from that, I love it.
Everyone like theirs?
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