PRIOR CONVICTION
Matt Prior
T his week, the screen I will mostly be looking at is the one pictured below,after a hire car lottery ran out of Kia Picantos and provided me with a Volvo XC60. I’m not unhappy about this. The XC60 is a comfortable car and this is mostly a comfortable screen to look at. It’s easy to be critical and plenty (including me) have been of the direction Volvo has taken with its interior functionality lately, with mass migration of controls to a touchscreen – including essentials like the foglight switches – at the expense of separate-button usability.
Speculation, of course, but this may be one of the reasons the pragmatic Håkan Samuelsson was restored as interim CEO. He’s a steady hand who understands that cars are not smartphones.