Last Station Button on Car Radios, Like a Cable Remote.
By
Staten Island, NY Posted: 1/13/2015 1:00:00 AM
Many car radios don't have a button to bring you back to the last station. That stinks.
If you sat in my Jeep and looked at my radio presets, you'll see I repeat the same stations over and over because the radio has a button that takes you to the next preset, but nothing that lets you go back. So for me, with over 18 possible presets, if I pass my station, I have to hit the button 17 times to get back to the one I just left.
To complicate things, if you've got satellite radio, there are hundreds of stations. If you hit a preset, then decide to go back, you may not even remember what station you were on, so you could potentially scroll through nearly 200 stations to get back where you were. By the time you do that, there's a good chance you'll pass it by mistake and start all over.
Ideally, if a car radio has up and down buttons on the steering wheel, those buttons should move you forward and backward through your presets. Chrysler apparently doesn't understand that. There's one button to move through the presets (all 18 of them), and the up / down buttons take you one station up or down... not back to the last station, or at least the last station.
I realize there may be space issue on the steering wheel, but they don't even have a button on the radio itself that will take you back. Instead, the buttons on the radio mirror those on the steering wheel.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
Related Media:
(Reply N/A) (Edit Topic N/A)
(Like Topic N/A) [0 ] 7055 Views
Related Posts
Improvements(106)Radio(7)
Top 25 Posts
* Note: The ideas on "Idea of the Day" were posted without any formal research into existing inventions.
In some cases, patents may already exist for these ideas, in other cases, there may not be any existing patents and you are free to develop and explore the viability of developing and patenting the ideas.
The authors make no claim that any of the ideas are safe, practical, or suitable for any particular purpose. You are responsible for the results of trying, developing, patenting or using any of the ideas on this site.
For some people, our ideas are just an interesting read, but our goal is to encourage you to take action. If you see an idea that you like, do something with it... Take action.
- Joe
Idea of the Day!
on...