Should I Sue Hyundai?

0:00 Hello, Tank.

0:00 I just got finished at the gym

0:02 where I've returned after somewhat healing from shingles.

0:05 Got in my car and I want to show you something

0:07 that I find very frustrating about how cars work right now.

0:11 And then after that, a thing that I find particularly frustrating that makes

0:17 me feel more frustrated about the thing that is about this particular car,

0:21 which is a Hyundai Ionic 5.

0:22 All right, I'm going to turn on the car.

0:23 Turning on the car.

0:24 Car's turning on.

0:25 I get this little thing.

0:26 This is a paragraph of information that comes up every time you start

0:29 the car forever and will always come up when you start the car.

0:31 Every time you start the car forever,

0:33 it's a little message that's telling me that I should obey the law,

0:37 which Hyundai doesn't need to tell me to do.

0:39 I'm going to do that whether or not Hyundai has reminded me to obey the law.

0:43 Now, the other thing that's frustrating is it's like,

0:45 don't look away from the road while you're driving.

0:48 But it's a little bit ridiculous to have a full paragraph

0:51 of text telling me that in a place that isn't the road, right?

0:56 So like I'm driving my car and this thing is here and it's like read me.

1:01 No.

1:01 No.

1:02 It's 2026.

1:03 Cars have had screens for a long time.

1:05 We do not need to have them remind us

1:07 to not look at the screens when we're driving.

1:10 We should know that by now.

1:12 And if we don't, we're not going to be

1:14 convinced by our cars passive aggressively interfering with the user

1:19 experience of enjoying the drive by giving us a little

1:23 message that we have to click on or off.

1:24 Now, that's the thing that a lot of cars are doing

1:26 right now that I think is ridiculous and it makes no sense.

1:29 And if it is a regulation that the government has passed,

1:32 here's future Hank to tell you if it's a regulation that the government

1:34 has passed or if it's just a thing that car companies do.

1:36 I don't know which.

1:37 So, here's what I can tell you.

1:38 Not every car does this.

1:39 So, clearly it is not legally required.

1:41 Now, is there some lawyer somewhere saying that you

1:44 should do this just to protect your ass?

1:46 Probably.

1:47 But I'm trying to live my life, drive my car, have a nice little experience.

1:51 I shouldn't have to click continue to use a car.

1:55 The folks at Kia and Hyundai and other car companies,

1:58 you might think that that we're going to sue you if we get

2:01 into an accident because we were looking at the screen, but that's stupid.

2:04 Just put it in the user manual.

2:06 Have it like be part of the first time I start the car up.

2:09 Regardless, the suing will happen because

2:12 anybody could sue anybody for anything.

2:14 But I don't like it's very difficult

2:15 to imagine a situation where somebody is like, "I didn't know that when I was

2:19 driving I shouldn't stare at the screen." Obviously,

2:22 I'm not a lawyer, but other car companies don't do this, so it is not required.

2:26 So, it is optional and please stop doing it.

2:28 And now, here's current Hank to tell you

2:29 that regardless of what I discovered in the future,

2:31 discovered discover in the future, it shouldn't be that way.

2:34 Either the regulation should change or the car companies should stop doing it.

2:37 Now, I'm going to show you the thing

2:39 that is exceptionally infuriating about my particular car.

2:42 Once I click the continue button, I get this screen.

2:46 And that that other screen will eventually go away if you drive for a while.

2:49 But this one will never go away.

2:51 You can drive around and these three paragraphs will

2:54 be here on this screen until you hit a button.

2:56 And often times, because I'm not clicking the continue button,

2:59 I'm just waiting for that screen to time out.

3:00 This will pop up while I am driving.

3:02 And it's a bunch of words to read on a screen that is

3:06 very specifically not the road that I'm supposed to be looking at.

3:09 What is this?

3:10 Hello.

3:11 With Blue Link, experience advanced services,

3:14 including more accurate navigation,

3:16 network-based voice recognition, and remote vehicle control.

3:19 Press start to activate the service.

3:21 To proceed with the activation, a smartphone must be used for safety.

3:25 Continue after parking the vehicle.

3:27 If you would like me to continue after parking the vehicle,

3:30 why is this screen on while I'm driving the vehicle?

3:33 And this screen does not go away no matter how much you drive.

3:35 You have to look away from the road to hit the later button.

3:38 But Hank, what if you want this screen to go away?

3:40 Well, to stop displaying the blue link activation setup.

3:43 I guess that's what this is.

3:44 Disable it in blue link settings,

3:46 which is a separate screen that does not have a button on this screen.

3:50 So to go and do it, you have to hit later

3:52 and then you have to go to settings and you have to find

3:53 blue link settings and you have to say stop displaying this blue

3:56 link activation help message which I for clarity absolutely could and should do.

4:00 But I am not the kind of guy who does that kind of thing.

4:03 I am one of many people who maybe suffer from a little bit

4:07 of a lack of executive function sometimes and I'm not going to do that.

4:10 Like eventually I will but literally like potentially years from now.

4:15 Is that a personal failing?

4:17 Absolutely yes.

4:18 But what you are implying with this series of messages is that people have

4:22 personal failings and that you know that people

4:24 have personal failings because you're telling them

4:26 to not disobey the law on a little screen in their car when people are

4:30 aware of the fact that laws exist

4:32 specifically to prevent them from doing certain things.

4:34 Like that's what a law is.

4:35 Now you got to pretend like we don't have failings.

4:37 And why?

4:38 Why have you made this series of user experience decisions?

4:41 This is an advertisement.

4:44 That's my case.

4:45 What else might this be besides an advertisement?

4:48 It is a thing that is letting me know about a product or service that I

4:51 am not currently signed up for that it would like me to sign up for.

4:55 This is an in-car ad from Hyundai by Hyundai

4:58 for Hyundai drivers that they are forcing me to look at.

5:00 And if I would like to not look at it anymore,

5:02 they have not given me a third button to say ignore.

5:05 They have said you're going to have to go

5:06 through this wholeing process to deal with it.

5:08 You do get a later button though.

5:10 You can have the later button,

5:12 which is of course the button that they expect you to hit while

5:15 you're driving because this screen has come up not before you started driving,

5:20 but while you are behind the wheel and the car is moving,

5:23 which is functionally the thing that the previous

5:25 screen that annoys me every time I turn

5:28 in the car that does not need to be there is telling me to not do.

5:31 So, Hyundai, I love this car.

5:33 I think it's a great car.

5:34 I I recommend every part of this car to everyone I know.

5:38 I'm going to give you one piece of advice and you should take it.

5:41 It does not increase my experience of enjoyment

5:45 of the car to have a little screen

5:47 come up and nag me to tell me that I should obey the laws of my nation.

5:51 That's not helpful and not good.

5:53 And maybe I discovered that this is a regulation.

5:55 In which case, I don't blame you.

5:57 I blame the people who wrote the regulations and the people who passed the law.

6:00 So maybe you can ignore that one.

6:02 But please don't ignore this one.

6:03 Give me an ignore button.

6:05 I don't know what Blue Link is.

6:06 I drive my car the way I drive my car.

6:09 I don't need all of those other things.

6:10 I don't want them.

6:11 You can let me know about it one time, but you got to give me that ignore button

6:14 or I will like stop recommending your car to people.

6:17 But more than that, I actually do believe

6:19 in government regulations and here's one that you should have.

6:22 It should not be legal to open up a wall of text that interferes

6:25 with my ability to use my car while I am driving my car.

6:29 You should not be able to do that.

6:30 There should be a law against that.

6:32 And what's more, I think,

6:34 and this is going to be more controversial and less likely to pass,

6:37 but I think there should be a law against using my car to advertise to me.

6:40 I think that if I want to add a product or service,

6:43 you can let me know about that product or service

6:45 on an ad that plays on a YouTube video or on television,

6:49 not on a product that I purchased.

6:51 Like, I should not be being advertised to in my car by my car.

6:55 If you have a great product or service, people are going to use it.

6:58 If it's not a great product or service, people aren't going to use it.

7:01 Why do you want me to sign up for it so bad?

7:03 Let me check and see if it costs money.

7:04 Oh, that's so weird and surprising.

7:06 It turns out it's $10 a month.

7:07 Let's go home and play some connections.

7:10 Okay, actually, but first, now that I know that this costs money,

7:12 I am going to click on the later button and I'm going to go to settings.

7:14 Blue link um blue link settings.

7:17 Blue link activation help displays blue link activation

7:20 help screen which assists in subscription and activation.

7:23 Boom.

7:23 I did it everybody.

7:25 You you at home, thank you for being the reason I

7:27 wanted to make this video because you became my executive function.

7:31 Can I turn off that screen at the beginning that tells me to not break laws?

7:35 I can't find it.

7:36 If it's possible, please let me know in the comments.

7:38 Okay, now let's play connections.

7:39 Before we do that though, I wonder if I could help solve a problem for you.

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7:58 We even have a Mother's Day care package.

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8:15 And so moms might like to know that all

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8:41 Good.

8:42 There's link in the description.

8:43 Okay, let's do connections.

8:44 Wireless plank KitKat.

8:46 There's KitKat in the news right now.

8:48 That's what I was recording this video.

8:49 A bunch of Kit Kats got stolen.

8:51 Chickflick KitKat.

8:52 I was hoping that would be a thing, but it doesn't look like it.

8:54 Crunch.

8:55 That's also a chocolate bar.

8:56 Push-up sports.

8:58 Push-up cataphrase plank.

9:00 Sports chickflick cannon.

9:02 Crows nest.

9:03 That's like a thing that can happen to people's hair.

9:05 There's like a crow's nest thing there.

9:06 There's al it's also part of a ship.

9:08 Pinch plunge.

9:09 Jolly Rodger.

9:11 That's not a candy, but it's close.

9:13 Absence fry cook deficit.

9:16 Oh no, I didn't see a a fourth.

9:18 I didn't see a fourth exercise.

9:20 A Jolly Rodger.

9:21 A sports a wireless.

9:22 A crunch.

9:23 A crunch.

9:23 A crunch.

9:24 So Jolly Roger is not a Jolly Rancher.

9:26 Kit Kat clearly is trying to mislead me here or or or drag me into something.

9:32 But plank push-up, calf raise, crunch, all that seems like a category.

9:35 It's very easy, but it seems like a category.

9:37 That's good enough for me.

9:38 Deficit cannon.

9:40 Two ends.

9:41 I'm not sure which one that is.

9:42 That's too bad.

9:43 Fry cook wireless.

9:45 Kit Kats come in four bars and so can your wireless.

9:50 Yeah.

9:50 Yeah.

9:51 No, no, no.

9:52 Can't be.

9:53 And a jolly Roger and a fry cook.

9:55 Those are the two-word ones.

9:57 No way.

9:57 Are they all related?

9:58 Pinch.

9:59 Absence.

10:00 I mean, KitKat.

10:02 What we do?

10:03 We figure out the weirdest word.

10:05 The weirdest word is probably Jolly Roger.

10:07 Jolly Rodger is very weird, but like I don't like Jolly Roger.

10:11 I don't actually know what that is.

10:12 I've heard the term before.

10:14 Is it like a It's It feels like it's from the 50s.

10:17 Jolly Roger.

10:18 Jolly Roger.

10:20 I don't know what that is, unfortunately.

10:21 Fry cook is really specific.

10:23 What are fry cooks do?

10:24 They cook fries almost exclusively.

10:27 They're part of a restaurant team deficit in a pinch.

10:31 Like if you have to.

10:32 Absence.

10:33 Man, this is Oh, boy.

10:36 It got tricky up in here.

10:38 I feel good about push-up crunch, calf raise, plank.

10:40 There's also like what we what we can guess is that Kit Kat is

10:44 not in the same category as as Jolly Roger or what's the other candy?

10:50 Oh, Crunch.

10:51 Shoot.

10:52 That doesn't actually help at all.

10:53 Plunge.

10:54 Cold.

10:54 Plunge.

10:55 Cold.

10:56 Absence.

10:57 Things that make the heart grow fonder.

10:59 Uh-oh.

10:59 When am I supposed to be somewhere?

11:00 No.

11:01 In in a in an hour.

11:02 That's great.

11:03 I have an hour to finish this connections, everybody.

11:05 That shouldn't be too bad.

11:06 Crow's nest is really just the nest of a crow

11:10 or it's the place on a ship where the person is

11:14 to look out and see what's going on or it's

11:18 a hair thing or it's something about the word crow's nest.

11:22 The plank that's also part of a ship like a pirate ship and a cannon

11:27 and Jolly Roger now that I'm looking at it that that feels piratey.

11:30 So we've got like a piratey category.

11:33 I got a little confused though because I thought plank

11:37 was from the workouts category and now I'm super worried.

11:42 This is why it's been so hard.

11:43 The freaking exercises with a freaking red herring.

11:46 This must be relaxing me.

11:48 It's not.

11:49 So what what else can we learn from this then?

11:52 Chick and a calf are both small animals from barnyards.

11:58 So is that a thing?

11:59 Fry.

12:00 Fry is a small fish.

12:03 That's awesome.

12:04 Okay.

12:05 And a kit is a small cat.

12:07 Great.

12:08 A chick, a calf, a fry, and a kit.

12:11 Okay.

12:12 All right.

12:12 Now we're getting somewhere.

12:14 Now we're getting somewhere.

12:16 Turns out that there was a there was

12:17 an overlapping red herring with the candy bar thing.

12:20 Crunch.

12:21 No.

12:21 No.

12:22 No.

12:22 No.

12:23 Not plank.

12:23 Plunge.

12:25 Pinch.

12:27 Crunch.

12:28 Those all kind of feel similar.

12:30 Pushup.

12:31 What?

12:32 No.

12:33 Okay.

12:33 So, we've got pinch sports plunge, wireless crunch, push-up, deficit.

12:39 There's something about pinch, plunge, crunch, push-up that feels like a thing,

12:44 which would leave us with deficit, sports, wireless, and chickflick.

12:49 No, not chickflick.

12:50 And and absence.

12:52 I'm struggling here.

12:53 Still struggling.

12:54 Still struggling.

12:55 Um, did I just not see this?

12:57 Listen, it's been here the whole time.

12:58 Pinch, absence, deficit.

13:00 You're in a pinch.

13:02 You're You have an absence.

13:03 You're in a deficit.

13:04 I don't know about plunge.

13:06 Kind of like when like the market is plunging.

13:09 That's like a like less.

13:10 And that then that would leave us with wireless sports pushup.

13:16 Oh, a crunch.

13:18 You're in a crunch.

13:19 You're in a crunch.

13:19 You're in a deficit.

13:20 You're in a crunch.

13:21 You're in an absence.

13:21 You're in a pinch.

13:23 Okay.

13:24 And that leaves us with wireless, sports, plunge, and push-up,

13:26 which feels like a purple to me because I don't know

13:28 what the heck those things have to do with each other.

13:30 We're going to go for it.

13:31 I feel I feel strained here.

13:35 OH.

13:35 OH, THEY'RE KIND OF BRAS.

13:38 Never would have got there.

13:39 And that wasn't even a purple.

13:41 I just don't know about enough about bras.

13:42 Everybody really living my life right now.

13:45 Would never had no idea a plunge was a kind of bra.

13:49 I've heard of the other ones, but not even really wireless.

13:52 Like I feel like there are the ones with wires.

13:56 That's the category.

13:57 Wireless is almost every bra.

13:59 Right.

13:59 These days we've moved beyond that.

14:01 It's this one.

14:02 Is it this one?

14:03 I should have guessed that.

14:05 I should have guessed that.

14:06 That was the purple.

14:06 Dang it.

14:07 This is the That's annoying.

14:10 This is a good one, though.

14:12 I like that.

14:13 That's my That's my bad.

14:15 That's my bad because I should have known that category.

14:17 That was I liked it.

14:18 I liked it.

14:19 I think that was a good one.

14:20 And it was four out of five.

14:21 Okay.

14:22 Pretty good.

14:23 Pretty good, everybody.

14:24 Pretty good.

14:24 Still itchy from the shingles, everybody.