Should I Sue Hyundai?

Hello, it's Hank. I just got finished at the gym, where I've returned after somewhat healing from shingles. Got in my car, and I want to show you something that I find very frustrating about how cars work right now. And then, after that, a thing that I find particularly frustrating, that makes me feel more frustrated about the thing, that is about this particular car, which is a Hyundai Ioniq 5. Alright, I'm gonna turn on the car. Turning on the car. Car's turning on. I get this little thing.

This is a paragraph of information that comes up every time you start the car forever and will always come up when you start the car every time you start the car forever. It's a little message that's telling me that I should obey the law,

which Hyundai doesn't need to reminded me to obey the law. Now, the other thing that's frustrating is like, don't look away from the road while you're driving, but it's a little bit ridiculous to have a full paragraph of text telling me that in a place that isn't the road, right? So like I'm driving my car and this thing is here

and it's like, read me? No, no. It's 2026, cars have had screens for a long time we do not need to have them remind us to not look at the screens when we're driving we should know that by now and if we don't we're not going to be convinced by our cars passive aggressively interfering with the user experience of enjoying the drive by giving us a little message that

we have to click on or off now that's the thing that a lot of cars are doing right now that I think is ridiculous and it makes no sense and if it is a regulation that the government has passed, here's future Hank to tell you if it's a regulation that the government has passed or if it's just a thing that you should do this just to protect your ass? Probably. But I'm trying to live my life, drive my car, have a nice little experience. I shouldn't have to click continue to use a car. The folks at Kia and Hyundai and other car companies, you might think that we're going to sue you if we get into an accident because we

were looking at the screen. But that's stupid. Just put it in the user manual. Have it like be part of the first time I start the car up. Regardless, the suing will happen because anybody can sue anybody for anything. But I don't like it's very difficult to imagine a situation where somebody is like, I didn't know that when I was driving, I shouldn't stare at the screen. Obviously, I'm not a lawyer, but other car companies don't do this. So it is not required So it is optional and please stop doing it And now here's current Hank to tell you that regardless of what I discovered in the future discovered discover in the future

It shouldn't be that way either the regulation should change or the car companies should stop doing it Now I'm going to show you the thing that is exceptionally infuriating about my particular car Once I click the continue button I get this screen and that that other screen will eventually go away if you drive for a while but this one will never go away. You can drive around and these three paragraphs will be here on this screen until you hit a button and oftentimes

because I'm not clicking the continue button I'm just waiting for that screen to timeout this will pop up while I am driving and it's a bunch of words to read on a screen that is very specifically not the road that I'm supposed to be looking at. What is this? Hello.

With Blue Link, experience advanced services including more accurate navigation, network-based voice recognition and remote vehicle control. Press start to activate the service. To proceed with the activation, a smartphone must be used for safety. Continue after parking the vehicle. If you would like me to continue after parking the vehicle,

why is this screen on while I'm driving the vehicle? And this screen does not go away no matter how much you drive. You have to look away from the road to hit the later button. But Hank, what if you want this screen to go away? Well, to stop displaying the Blue Link activation setup, I guess that's what this is, disable it in Blue Link settings, which is a separate screen that does not have a button

on this screen. So to go and do it, you have to hit later and then you have to go to settings and you have to find Blue Link settings and you have to say, stop displaying this Blue Link activation help message, which I, for clarity, absolutely could and should do. But I am not the kind of guy who does that kind of thing. I am one of many people who maybe suffer from a little bit of a lack of executive function sometimes and I'm not going to do that like eventually I will but literally like potentially years from now. Is that a personal failing? Absolutely yes. But what you are implying with this series of messages is that people have

personal failings and that you know that people have personal failings because you're telling them to not disobey the law on a little screen in their car when people are aware of the fact that laws exist specifically to prevent them from doing certain things like that's what a law is now you're gonna pretend like we don't have failings and why why have you made this series of user experience decisions this is an advertisement that That's my case.

What else might this be besides an advertisement? It is a thing that is letting me know about a product or a service that I am not currently signed up for that it would like me to sign up for. This is an in-car ad from Hyundai, by Hyundai,

for Hyundai drivers that they are forcing me to look at. And if I would like to not look at it anymore they have not given me a third button to say ignore they have said you're gonna have to go through this whole process to deal with it you do get a later button though you can have the later button which is of course the button that they expect you to hit while you're driving because this screen has come up not before you started driving but while you are behind the wheel and the car is moving which is functionally the thing that the previous screen That annoys me every time I turn in the car that does not need to be there is telling me to not do so

Hyundai I love this car. I think it's a great car. I would I recommend every part of this car to everyone I know I'm gonna give you one piece of advice and you should take it It does not increase my experience of enjoyment of the car to have a little screen come up and nag me to tell me that I should obey the laws of my nation. That's not helpful and not good.

And maybe I discovered that this is a regulation, in which case I don't blame you. I blame the people who wrote the regulations and the people who passed the law. So maybe you can ignore that one, but please don't ignore this one. Give me an ignore button. I don't know what Blue Link is. I drive my car the way I drive my car. I don't need all of

those other things. I don't want them. You can let me know about it one time, but you've got to give me that ignore button or I will like stop recommending your car to people. But more than that, I actually do believe in government regulations and here's one that you should have it should not be legal to open up a wall of text that interferes with my ability To use my car while I am driving my car. You should not be able to do that There should be a law against that and what's more I think and this is gonna be more controversial and less likely to pass But I think there should be a law against using my car to advertise to me

I think that if I want to add a product or service, you can let me know about that product or service on an ad that plays on a YouTube video or on television, not on a product that I purchased. Like I should not be being advertised to in my car by my car! If you have a great product or service, people are gonna use it. If it's not a great product or service, people aren't gonna use it. Why do you want me to sign up for it so bad? Let me check and see if it costs money. Oh that's so weird and surprising it turns out it's $10 a month. Let's go home and play some connections.

Okay actually but first now that I know this costs money I am going to click on the later button and I'm going to go to settings. Blue link. Um blue link settings. Blue link activation help screen which assists in subscription and activation. Boom. I did it everybody. You! You at home! Thank you for being the reason I wanted to make this video because you became my executive function.

Can I turn off that screen at the beginning that tells me to not break laws? I can't find it. If it's possible, please let me know in the comments, okay? Now let's play Connections. Before we do that though, I wonder if I could help solve a problem for you. So in the US it's about to be Mother's Day and maybe you'd like to get something for your mom for Mother's Day but like you don't you know you'd like to but then you don't so I have I think a good solution to this problem. Two big advantages to good

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There's like a crow's nest thing there. It's also part of a ship. Pinch, plunge, Jolly Roger. That's not a candy, but it's close. Absence, fry cook, deficit. Oh no, I didn't see a fourth exercise.

A Jolly Roger, a sports, a wireless, a crunch. A crunch. A crunch. So Jolly Roger's not a Jolly Rancher. KitKat clearly is trying to mislead me here or drag me into something. But plank, pushup, calf raise, crunch, all that seems like a category. It's very easy, but it seems like a category.

That's good enough for me. Deficit. Cannon. Two N's. I'm not sure which one that is. That's too bad. Fry cook. Wireless. Kit Kats come in four bars. And so can your wireless. Yeah? Yeah? No. No. No. Can't be. And a Jolly Roger and a fry cook. Those are the two word ones. No way are they all related.

Pinch. Absence. I mean, Kit Kat. What do we do? We figure out the weirdest word. The weirdest word is probably Jolly Roger. Jolly Roger is very weird, but like I don't like Jolly Roger. I don't actually know what that is. I've heard the term before. Is it like a it feels like it's from the 50s? Jolly Roger. Jolly Roger. I don't know what that is, unfortunately. Fry cook is really specific. What do fry cooks do? They cook fries almost exclusively. They're part of a restaurant team deficit.

In a pinch. Like if you have to. Absence. Man, this is mmm, oh boy. It got tricky up in here. I feel good about push-up crunch caf-raise plank.

There's also like what we can guess is that Kit Kat is not in the same category as Jolly Roger or what's the other... Candy. Oh. Crunch. Shoot.

That doesn't actually help at all. Plunge. Cold plunge, cold absence. Things that make the heart grow fonder. Uh oh. Am I supposed to be somewhere?

No. In an hour. That's great. I have an hour to finish this Connections everybody. That shouldn't be too bad. Crow's Nest is really just the nest of a crow, or it's the place on a ship where the person is to look out and see what's going on. Or it's a hair thing. Or it's something about the word. Crow's Nest. The Plank. That's also part of a ship, like a pirate ship.

And a cannon. And Jolly Roger, now that I'm looking at it, that feels piratey. So we've got like a piratey category. I got a little confused though, because I thought plank was from the workouts category. And now I'm super worried. This is why it's been so hard.

The freaking exercises with a freaking red herring. This must be relaxing me. It's not. So what what else can we learn from this then? Chick and a calf are both small animals from barnyards. So is that a thing? Fry, fry is a small fish. That's awesome. Okay. And a kit is a small cat. Great.

A chick, a calf, a fry, and a kit. Okay. All right. Now we're getting somewhere. Now we're getting somewhere. Turns out there was an overlapping red herring with the candy bar thing.

Crunch. No, no, no, no. Not plank. Plunge. Pinch. Crunch. No, no, no, no, not plank. Plunge. Pinch. Crunch. Those all kind of feel similar. Push-up? What? No. Okay, so we've got pinch, sports, plunge, wireless, crunch, push-up, deficit. There's something about pinch, plunge, crunch, push-up that feels like a thing which would leave us with

deficit sports wireless and chick flick no not chick flick and and absence I'm struggling here still struggling still struggling um did I just not see this and it's been here the whole time pinch absence deficit you're in a pinch you're you have an absence you're in a deficit I you have an absence, you're in a deficit. I don't know about plunge. Kind of like when like the market is plunging. That's like a like less.

And then that would leave us with wireless sports push up. Oh, a crunch. You're in a crunch. You're in a crunch. You're in a deficit. You're in a crunch.

You're in an absence. You're in a crunch, you're in an absence, you're in a pinch. Okay. And that leaves us with wireless, sports, plunge, and push-up. Which feels like a purple to me because I don't know what the heck those things have to do with each other. We're gonna go for it. I feel... I feel strained here. Ho! Oh! There are kinds of bras! Never would have got there! And that wasn't even the purple. I just don't know enough about bras, everybody. Really living my life right now. Would never, had no idea a plunge was a kind of bra. I've heard of the other ones. But not even really wireless. Like, I feel like there are the ones with

wires. That's the category. Wireless is almost every bra, right? These days, we've moved beyond that. It's this one. Is it this one? I should have guessed that. I should have guessed that that was the purple. Dang it! This is the... That's annoying. This is a good one though. I like that. That's my bad. That's my bad because I should have known that category.

That was it. I liked it. I liked it. I think that was a good one and it was 4 out of 5. Okay. That was it. I liked it. I liked it. I think that was a good one and it was 4 out of 5. Okay. Pretty good. Pretty good everybody. Pretty good.