I'm torn on this to be honest, basically, I think it is.
But here's why I'm torn. In our ICE cars I have to look down and to the right to adjust any of the HVAC, heated seats, radio buttons etc. because they are all buttons. Yes, a few of them I can do without glancing down as muscle memory knows where they are, but in general, I'd be doing the same in that as I had to in the Marvel R. It's the same story in virtually any 'regular' car, the control buttons are in the centre, down to either the right or the left of the driver (depending on which side the steering wheel is), so this is nothing new, but it's the functionality that overall is flawed for me. Thus, where I think that the Marvel R falls down with it's infotainment design is that:
a) the screen just didn't need to be that big. Ask someone why they climb a mountain and they will invariably answer 'because it's there' - it's the same with this screen, it's big because they could, not because they needed it to be.
b) it's shiney. The sun's reflections on it (even when it's not particularly sunny) make glancing briefly down to view it difficult at times and this could easily have been negated with a matt finish screen protector.
c) everything is buried in menus. I know that familiarisation will negate this to a certain extent, but I think the designers could have easily put a smaller screen and some shortcut buttons in and kept the design looking premium.
d) I couldn't find the off switch. This was annoying at night, not the end of the world, just annoying.
I still think that longer term use/ownership would negate some of these, but in today's world where SIAC have access to world class designers, I don't think we should even be having this conversation as it should have never got past prototyping stage as it is.
