Like Ralph, I’ve just been having a play, on the drive, only switching on the radio, not the ignition. Frustratingly, touching the OK button worked almost every time, whether I gave it a light touch, a broad thumb press, or a finger-tip tap, and whether I aimed for the centre of the button, or towards one side. If only it would operate like that for us when we’re driving! But as Ralph concluded, accuracy doesn’t seem to be important. I don’t know whether the screen is less sensitive when the car has just got moving, or whether this afternoon’s conditions were exceptionally favourable.
People seemed surprised that I wasn’t noticing the warning before the car had rolled off the drive onto the road, so I had several goes at timing it. It seemed to take between 7 and 8 seconds for the OK button to appear (the message itself seems to appear over a fraction of a second rather than instantly, with the OK button being the last part to appear). With fuel-injected modern cars, I’ve got in the habit of just turning the ignition key briefly, and assuming the car will have started, so I think that gives me plenty of time to release the handbrake and for the car to roll back onto the road.
Is my warning unusually slow to appear, or is 7-8 seconds normal?
With thanks,
Chris