I love the steering controls and the HUD on the 450h+. The buttons are customizable as to what they show on the HUD, and being able to see everything on the HUD without taking your eyes off the road is great. The turn directions even shows up on it.

I also saw the CR vid and they're just plain wrong. They are testing for short periods of time, and it looks like they didn't even bother to read the manual or look stuff up.

Oh, and for what it's worth, love the push button door handles inside, since it also has easy conventional release for emergencies. It's more ergonomic. Instead of grabbing, pulling, then pushing, all you need to do is push. One step vs three.

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2024 RX 450h+ (PHEV)
2010 Prius (HEV)

 

So you think nobody ever opened a door and was hit on the side of oncoming traffic? Hmmmm

 

I second this - we've only had the RX350h for two weeks but I watched a few tutorials on those controls and quickly took the time to customize them exactly how I prefer.

 

The HUD steering wheel controls are my biggest gripe to date. Except for the dedicated buttons, they rarely work for me the first time. I often press them twice and they still don't do what I wanted them to do. The touch sensitive part for me rarely activates for me, so I have to very intentionally press the button once, wait for it to activate on the HUD, then press it again. It winds up making it distracting, which is the very opposite of what a HUD is supposed to do.

 

I use them without HUD which I despise but they work perfectly watching from the main center cluster. Are you wearing gloves? I suspect that will interfere with the touch sensitivity.

 

I'm not wearing gloves. There is a glove mode that's supposed to increase sensitivity. I've tried it both ways and it made no difference.

 

They’re probably working as intended. VW chose to do their haptic steering wheel buttons as always active and they got roasted for accidentally hitting things while driving when people didn’t want to do it. Lexus chose to avoid this issue and not always have them active so you need to wake it up. Try this technique, wipe your thumb along the buttons and then press the one you want. When you do the wipe the HUD will show what each button does. Once you get used to it it becomes one movement.

 

2024 RX350H - I agree with the comment on the bright HUD and hard to see instrument panel. I have been unable to brighten the display enough in daytime driving. It's almost useless. Without HUD, I'd be really pissed. Night time is better. Any suggestions on how to increase brightness more than the up/down buttons to the left of the wheel allow?

 

Faint in the cluster? Not sure what you mean. I never use HUD and see the controls crystal clear in the MID.

 

I agree. Also, being able to custom program is genius.

 

A shame the custom choices are limited to their few choices and the right side alternates are not available when using the cruise control.

 

if the brightness is not adjusting properly, did you not notice this on your test drive? Has dealer attempted to resolve?

No sense being pissed. I’m sure something really simple to solve if not human error.

 

The main instrument panel in front of the driver is incredibly dim even with the brightness all the way up... Many other cars have much
brighter main screen... it's not human error it's a product problem with a cheap screen

 

Ours seems not really any different than any other car we've owned. I never even checked to see if it's at max level.

 

I have the lux trim with the Heads-up display so I have the "touchpad" on both sides of the steering wheel. I have learned how to use and there its ok for me. I had a 2018 NX with the mousepad and hated it. I don't use the steering wheel controls because of the 14inch Touch screen its just easier.