dropping middle row madness.

[16'-Red-Canoe]

I'm wondering if anyone else finds it maddeningly frustrating that they have to go to each front door to access the seat controls on both sides of the front row in order to drop the middle row seats flush for loading from the back. I've posted a solution request on the wish list but there are very low hits. Is it just me or is this thing crazy? I just would have thought that when you press the buttons at the back to drop the middle row that the vehicle would tilt the front seats forward automatically so that the headrests can clear the backs. As it is dropping the seats is one of my least favorite tasks

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[Zoidz]

Every SUV with fold down rear seats I've ever owned (S10 Blazer, Suburbans, Avalanche, R1S) required you to move the front seats forward if they were slid back or reclined. It's not maddeningly frustrating to me, it is what it is. It takes 15 - 20 seconds. First world problem, relax!!

 

[16'-Red-Canoe]

Every SUV with fold down rear seats I've ever owned (S10 Blazer, Suburbans, Avalanche, R1S) required you to move the front seats forward if they were slid back or reclined. It's not maddeningly frustrating to me, it is what it is. It takes 15 - 20 seconds. First world problem, relax!!

Every one of those SUV you listed didn't cost $160,000 and have software to solve the problems. Perhaps you should have higher standards ;-)

 

[Riviot]

Every one of those SUV you listed didn't cost $160,000 and have software to solve the problems. Perhaps you should have higher standards ;-)

Show me your $160k SUV.

 

[godfodder0901]

Show me your $160k SUV.

He's Canadian, eh...

 

[Riviot]

He's Canadian, eh...

That's cheating!

 

[PappaBolt]

Pretty sure the lawyers won’t let them do that. Any passengers in the front seat might get a surprise.

 

[Zoidz]

Every one of those SUV you listed didn't cost $160,000 and have software to solve the problems. Perhaps you should have higher standards ;-)

my Suburbans and Avalanche DID cost about the same as what I paid for my Rivian in year adjusted dollars. Congratulations on correctly recognizing that a 1995 or 2010 vehicle is not software based, Captain Obvious.

My standards are just fine. In the ~ 5 years I have been on this forum, you're the first person of the thousands of members to complain about this - that speaks for itself. Members that have been here longer than your rookie tenure know my mantra about real world automation (which is my career) - "Just because you CAN automate something does not mean you SHOULD".

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Drink some Canadian beer and chill. Life could be worse. You could be in a trench in Ukraine.

 

[BCondrey]

I'm thinking this is a safety thing.

 

[Lawrence-of-Blaine]

Heres’s what we’d very likely get if they designed that in: the front seats would move forward, the middles would drop down, and the fronts would stay put. Then you’d have to adjust each front seat one by one and manually re-set your position, which of course would be maddeningly frustrating. Because the world is filled with half-assed engineering laid atop Murphy’s Law, that’s what you’d end up with.
Be careful what you wish for!

 

[bigsky]

Very low hits=don't-care.

 

[SANZC02]

I’ve probably dropped the middle row down 5 times in the 2+ years I’ve had it, simply not an issue for us.

 

[HaveBlue]

Hey hey, no slouching.

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Pretty sure the lawyers won’t let them do that. Any passengers in the front seat might get a surprise.

To be fair, there are detectors in the seats to know if a passenger is in it or not, so wouldn't be a huge software defined obstacle to overcome.

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