A whopping 78 per cent of UK motorists don’t want unnecessary technology in their new cars, while a third of automobile owners only use 25 per cent of the features fitted to their vehicles.
Those are the headline claims from survey results published by Renault-owned budget brand Dacia. The published figures also suggest that 61 per cent of UK motorists would like not to pay for this raft of redundant features.
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Dipping additionally into the survey reveals 76 per cent of motorists believe automobiles overloaded with tech can be dangerously distracting, and 69 per cent believe in-car technology is simply too complicated these days.
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The Dacia data shows young motorists between 25-34 tend to use their in-car tech features the most, but even they use less than half of the available features. On average, motorists are said to use just 40 per cent of the available tech, so premium features such as in-car Wi-Fi or self-parking typically go completely unused.
While Dacia has scored big sales hits with models such as the Sandero and Duster that have relatively low-specifications compared to pricier rivals, it didn’t limit its survey to owners of its own automobiles – the results came from a nationwide sample of 2,000 motorists in a bid to reflect the views of UK motorists as a whole.
What’s your view on the technology fitted to modern cars? Is there too much? how lots of of your car’s tech features do you use?