I have to agree with you, ‘Philr’.
Basic electrickery is within my grasp and has been since I first got involved in motor vehicle electrics back in the early 1960s. However, as electronics have been increasingly utilised in vehicles over recent years, I find myself out of my depth trying to understand some of the problems and hiccups that occur in our 2020s cars.
My difficulty was recently highlighted by my ‘allegedly’ high-end dashcam (well, that’s what they called it!) which insists on talking to me every time I enter the car. I try to pay it no attention as I can’t find a way to switch off the dialogue without switching off the parking mode motion detection which looks as though that would require completely disabling the dashcam.
That said, the information seems to include (and I’m guessing) perhaps a passing HGV or gusting wind causing an alert that might be construed as an attempt to enter the car. Sometimes, overnight, the camera system may pick up one ‘event’ and on other occasions if I haven’t used the car for a few days, there could be 8,9 or 10 ‘events’.
I haven’t found a way to alter the sensitivity of motion detection which was pretty simple to achieve on my previous Next Base model so I wonder if the activity that the ‘lady’? insists on disseminating to me is having any significant effect on battery charge. So far, I have never required to perform a battery refresh but I shall continue with things as they are for the time being.