So picture the scene, my new husband and I are on honeymoon in the Cook Islands just finishing a nice lunch by the beach when we hear there is a tsunami warning. So we head to our hire car in an attempt to get away from the waters edge and turn on the radio for more information. The reception isn’t great so, as the announcer starts to reel a list of where and when the tsunami is expected, in a bid to sharpen up the reception I hit the tuning button once. Sadly instead of sharpening up the signal it loses it altogether and persists on ‘searching’ through the stations perpetually without ever finding one.
Fortunately as it turns out the tsunami misses our island, and my husband stops calling me an idiot eventually! However, I am left wondering why it is that car radios continue to be quite so un-user friendly. Even the new digital variety still generally require an unpredictable combination of pressing and holding mysteriously labelled buttons to set the clock and store radio stations, and, as my experience demonstrates, tuning in a station isn’t always as straightforward as it could be. Wouldn't it be great to see a new range of radios launched that really were easy to use, without an instruction manual.
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