The screen can be touched when the vehicle is not moving, or when in motion, it can be controlled by the easy to
use rotary knob and volume knob in the console.
Instead, Alfa drivers don't get a touchscreen and are stuck
using a rotary knob to control a system that has a non-intuitive structure too many menus to be user - friendly.
By
using the rotary knobs mounted in the center of the dash below the radio, the air conditioner can be adjusted without diverting much attention from driving.
Our car had this, and a button panel called Selec - Terrain at the end of the centre console which
uses a rotary knob to «Selec» between snow, sand, mud, rock and automatic modes.
The old switch and lever controls for the air conditioner have been replaced with easy - to -
use rotary knobs.
The Jaguar XF doesn't have a gear lever, instead
it uses a rotary knob which rises up when you start the vehicle.
The majority of functions are controlled by the Audi MMI Touch system, which
uses a rotary knob with a touchpad surface on the top and a quadrant of buttons.
This enables the driver to guide a trailer into position by simply following its trajectory on the main touchscreen and controlling its path
using a rotary knob between the front seats.
Three easy - to -
use rotary knobs - mounted in the center of the dash just below the radio - control the air conditioning system.
Not exact matches
During a fierce slush storm, we cruised along in all - wheel - drive mode, which we switched into
using a handy
rotary knob near the center armrest, without so much as a whiff of anxiety.
There are four modes, selected by a
rotary knob on the centre console: ZEV (electric - only), Auto (leave the RXH to do what it thinks best) Sport (sharpens the responses and keeps the revs higher) and 4x4 (keeps the rear wheels powered, for snow or off - road
use).
It works as advertised and is a better entry method than the
rotary knob, but it's still not as easy to
use as a touch - screen system.
The
rotary knob and three - tier infotainment system is still needlessly complicated — COMAND, and its three - tier menus, is a terrible and confusing concept, surviving through sheer stubbornness, difficult to navigate expertly even after repeated
use by techno - millennials like what I allegedly am.
Concept A-Class was Mercedes - Benz's choice for introducing the COMAND Online multimedia system and the
use of smartphone functions such as internet radio, e-mail and social networks as apps on a 7 - inch display operated via a
rotary - push control
knob.
Current Mazda interiors are admittedly a bit plain, but the 3's cabin is sensibly designed, and Mazda's
rotary knob infotainment controller is easy to
use.
Setting destinations can be very tedious, as you have to
use the MMI
knob as a
rotary dial to select letters and numerals.
I found it to be intuitive and easy to
use with the
rotary control
knob.
The high - mounted infotainment screen is now bookended by two
rotary knobs and real - life buttons (after some unfortunate experiments in taking them away), offering ease of
use from the get - go, with steering - mounted buttons helping to keep eyes on the road and not on the center stack.
Of course, the
rotary knob on the center console is still there to help you out if you prefer
using it.
Unlike BMW and Mercedes which feature
rotary knobs to control the infotainment system, the NX features a touchpad to
use controls.
Not the design, mind you, but the trim plastics
used on the center stack and various bezels were flimsy and hollow - sounding, the switchgear (particularly the
rotary shifter
knob) felt cheap and the textured material upholstering the dash was just weird.
Of course, the overall design is betraying the Audi A7's age, but the overall control layout is fairly intuitive for the most part, with no buttons or
rotary knobs on the center console that feel fiddly to
use or difficult to operate on the move.
The transmission dial is no picnic to
use, either, and it's too easy to slip the
rotary control
knob into the wrong gear.
Audi opts to
use an MMI
rotary knob to control the infotainment.
It still
uses the iDrive - like
rotary knob and adjacent shortcut keys for menu navigation, and even if the submenu structure is slightly tedious to move through, it can not be accused of not being logically designed.
Rather than
using touchscreen controls, it employs an iDrive - system
rotary knob and hard button interface on the center console to navigate its menu system.
Using a simple
rotary knob surrounded by intuitively placed direct - access buttons, the DIS falls naturally to the driver's right hand, allowing immediate access to the K900's wide range of advanced systems, including entertainment and voice - command navigation functions.
Given its head, the SRT bellows into life, making good
use of its newly adopted eight - speed automatic transmission complete with its unexpectedly ergonomic
rotary selector
knob.
The
rotary shifter
knob is a little goofy at first but you quickly get
used to it.
Speaking of power trains, the XF is only available with an eight - speed automatic transmission that, as I mentioned earlier,
uses a novel
rotary transmission selector that rises out of the center console like a giant chrome volume
knob when the car is started.
It can be controlled
using the touchpad on the centre console or the
rotary knob located underneath.
Destinations must be entered
using a spindly, push - in /
rotary knob to the right of the screen, which can be
used to input place names just one letter at a time.
The entire system is controlled
using Acura's
rotary controller, a large
knob that can be rotated, pushed in eight directions, and depressed like a button to make selections and browse the map.
The computer - controlled air conditioner, adjusted by
using three
rotary knobs in the center of the dash, worked well.
Controlling this is a
rotary knob in the center console, along with
using voice commands.
The Genesis
rotary knob is subtle, its
use optional, and it does not take the physical place of cupholders as in some vehicles.