[tony1021]

Is the touch screen on the new CTS heat sensitive? I have one friend that has a new escalade and another with an ls430. On the escalade you litterally have to tap the screen whereas in the ls you barely need to touch as it is heat sensitive. I honestly didn't like the escalades touch screen at all, i find it to be relatively cheap having to tap it like that. Feels like your gonna damage it

 

[MCGARRETT]

I guess that it is touch sensitve but there must be different level of sensitivity from design to design. But, hey, considering other manufacturers dont even offer a touch screen, like Infiniti, just a screen with remote buttons on the bottom, i.e. a "big radio display" and GM has had touch sensitive screens since 1986, I would'nt worry too much about "breaking" one.

 

[jkennedy293]

I don't think you are going to break the touch screen by, you know, touching it.

 

[tony1021]

my problem isn't being worried about breaking one, im just saying that I think its relatively cheap, you have to tap the keys pretty hard whereas in the lexus you just barely touch it. I just think that if your buying a luxury car you shouldn't have to tap to the point where your fingers hurt after typing in an address or something. I would honestly prefer not having the touch screen at that point. Going back to my original question is the new cts nav is heat sensitive as it is in the lexus?

 

[igor]

I guess that it is touch sensitve but there must be different level of sensitivity from design to design. But, hey, considering other manufacturers dont even offer a touch screen, like Infiniti, just a screen with remote buttons on the bottom, i.e. a "big radio display" and GM has had touch sensitive screens since 1986, I would'nt worry too much about "breaking" one.

um .... the screens in Infinitis are touch-screens - Nissan simply also adds the buttons - as an option...

Igor

 

[MCGARRETT]

No they are not, sorry.



Neither are the ones in an S-Class or a 7 series for that mater, they are all controled through the console remote, no real "touch" interface.

 

[a_v_s]

But, hey, considering other manufacturers dont even offer a touch screen, like Infiniti, just a screen with remote buttons on the bottom, i.e. a "big radio display" and GM has had touch sensitive screens since 1986, I would'nt worry too much about "breaking" one.

Actually, Infiniti's Navigation systems are touchscreen. (They weren't previously, but they are now). Some people like touch screens, some people don't. Personal opinion really. I know I didn't really like the touchscreen on my wife's car.

Personally, I'm more irritated that on many of GM's navigation systems, to get the DVD navigation, you must delete the 6-CD changer. That's annoying.

 

[MCGARRETT]

Unless they made some significant change from the Infinities that I last sat in at the Auto Show, the ones that had there were not touch screen. Again I dont keep on top of "Infiniti inside news" , so if they did make them touch screen, then kudos.

 

[a_v_s]

Unless they made some significant change from the Infinities that I last sat in at the Auto Show, the ones that had there were not touch screen. Again I dont keep on top of "Infiniti inside news" , so if they did make them touch screen, then kudos.

When was the last time you were at the auto show? Every Infiniti model, (except I think the FX, but the new one does) have a touchscreen DVD w/hard-drive navigation system. (You can go to their website and see if you were curious, or if you didn't believe me)

Europeans are just wierd that way. When I was in europe a few months ago, one of my european collegues was telling me that most factory navs in europe were monochrome. He seemed shocked when I said that stateside, they are full color.

I also remember an episode of that reality show with Nick and Jessica (that my wife was watching), where they were complaining how bad the navigation system was in the S-Class....

 

[HoosierRon]

Navigation screens. . . I don't need a female voice to tell me where to drive.

I'm married.

 

[a_v_s]

Navigation screens. . . I don't need a female voice to tell me where to drive.

I'm married.

That only works if your wife actually knows where you're going, and can give decent directions... My wife will say to go left, but she'll point right, or vice versa. Or she'll say, "it's over there by that one thing", and expect I know what she's talking about. The best is when she tells me to turn, as I'm passing the street I need to turn on....

We both prefer navigation. That way she doesn't have to give me retarded directions, and I don't get mad and yell at her. And she doesn't go bezerk.

 

[baloo]

Europeans are just wierd that way. When I was in europe a few months ago, one of my european collegues was telling me that most factory navs in europe were monochrome. He seemed shocked when I said that stateside, they are full color.

His experience may have been with older cars or lower end models. The very first factory navs used monochrome LCD's in the mid 90's or so, but MB for example dropped them 10 years ago or so.

As for the lack of touchscreens in the A8, S-Class and 7-series, they have a different philosophy. Touchscreens provide no tactile feedback, so they're harder to operate without looking at them and they're impossible to keep clean.

 

[mbukukanyau]

Is the touch screen on the new CTS heat sensitive? I have one friend that has a new escalade and another with an ls430. On the escalade you litterally have to tap the screen whereas in the ls you barely need to touch as it is heat sensitive. I honestly didn't like the escalades touch screen at all, i find it to be relatively cheap having to tap it like that. Feels like your gonna damage it

Perhaps you might wanna buy a lexus

 

[tony1021]

Perhaps you might wanna buy a lexus

i would never buy a lexus, im just stating the fact that when you comparing luxury cars when you have to break your finger tapping to input a location whereas in others you can softly input a location without causing any physical damage to your fingers it might turn you off. Besides that I love the cts and wish I could get rid of my truck and take one up. If you can't make the touch screen heat sensitive as found in other competitors i wouldn't even spend the money on a touch screen, thats all I wanted to say.

 

[Quickening]

And you don't "tap" the screen, just a simple light push will do the job.

 

[MCGARRETT]

when you have to break your finger tapping to input

Have you considered a calcium supplement?

 

[Sal Collaziano]

i would never buy a lexus, im just stating the fact that when you comparing luxury cars when you have to break your finger tapping to input a location whereas in others you can softly input a location without causing any physical damage to your fingers it might turn you off. Besides that I love the cts and wish I could get rid of my truck and take one up. If you can't make the touch screen heat sensitive as found in other competitors i wouldn't even spend the money on a touch screen, thats all I wanted to say.

It's not a Lexus, Tony. It's a Cadillac. Lexus thinks about "everything" while Cadillac does a "pretty good job" of thinking about things.. I know where you're coming from - because typing in an address is kind of a pain on my Cadillacs navigation - but if it's causing you pain - than you have a faulty nav...

 

[XP300]

Navigation screens. . . I don't need a female voice to tell me where to drive.

I'm married.

Thank You Ron, but I have you beat.

Not only do I have my wife telling me how and where to drive, but my grandson too.

Imagine this little voice saying, "Papa, you drive too slow and leave my music on". "Let me drive Papa". "Turn in that McDonalds Papa".

Then again, he is my best buddy and wants me to live to infinity so he can give me lots of bruises, wrestling on the floor, so I can put up with his back seat driving. I'm not so sure about my wife.

 

[emh]

Cadillac uses several different navigation systems in their vehicles. Just because the system in the Escalade isn't sensitive enough doesn't mean the same will be true of the CTS. As a different data point, I don't find the touch screen on my SRX difficult to use at all -- the sensitivity seems just fine.

I haven't spent much time with nav system in the CTS, but it's an Alpine unit, and my prior experiences with Alpines have been very positive.

 

[suckstobeyou]

i am 97% positive that the sensitivity can be adjusted.