We picked up our Mazda3 yesterday: sGrandTouring 6M. Had to drive from Charlottesville up to Butler, Pa to pick it up.

Fooled with the Infotainment package while my wife did her stint at driving it.

Frustrating.

The clock set and door set stuff and basic GPS inputs didn't seem to work while the car was moving.

Cannot figure out whether one can make the CD a Favorite. Otherwise, it's too dangerous to fart with that thing through its horrid menus while driving.

Why mess up a beautiful car with such a horrid way to access ones phone and radio?

Couldn't get the Homelink to recognize neither our garage door opener nor our gate opener.

Ralph

 

Got into the "clock" part to reset it with the car stopped.

Only way I got into the "vehicle" part is with it running and stopped. Reset door locks, etc.

Ralph

 

All the infotainment systems do that. In fact the many that don't offer a nice control **** are generally unusable when the car is in motion. As far as the homelink, it's hard to make anything universal for radio remote controlled devices. Tv remotes can simply copy pulses of light. Radio transmitters can be different modulations and also use any number of custom encryption methods to protect unauthorised dupes.