20 years from now someone on the internet is going to post "Remember back when we were so addicted to tablets that they replaced our car AC buttons with them?"
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And for the sake of fuck, analog dials! I don't want my volume knob to only go up or down by two when I spin it. Each click should be a change!
Then don't but from automakers that save 8cents a car by buying less featured switches.
Unless you're BYD, and then you got rocker switches that look like buttons, just to throw you off.
You know he is referring to a 2023 article right?https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touch-screens-vw-porsche-nissan-hyundai.html
And so is the video.
I really don't see any improvements lately
I was thinking the same thing. Posting a video that's 1 year old with no new info is pretty weird.
My cat's touchscreen is broken. It wouldn't stop registering a constant input from one corner. They told me it would be thousands to fix. Now it's more broken and won't accept any input. That makes it actually functional since I can use the buttons and knobs to do things that were being over ridden by the screen input.
Maybe bring it to a vet then? Also, why does your cat have a touchscreen in the first place?
PS: this will look stupid once you correct your post
haha we have so few other things to worry about in 2024 that misspellings are now high crimes
Never said it's a high crime
People who correct their post without leaving a trace of their mistake after someone has already commented on it should be keelhauled and slapped in the face with a dirty trout.
Hot take: All comments should have a public "edit history" the way Wikipedia pages do.
I'm not going to correct it, but his touch peets seem to be working fine.
How do we know he is not talking about one if these?
I feel like this is a problem already well-studied and solved by industry, particularly aviation and rail.
A hybrid interface like this one (obviously with more advanced graphics) seems so obviously the way to go.
It shouldn't even be legal to not have buttons for everything but CarPlay/Android auto (which should still be required to have buttons/knobs for volume and skip forward/back)
Fuckin' finally.
Take my 2014 Crosstrek and jam the drivetrain from the Ioniq 5 in it, change nothing else, and I'll buy two.
One of the reasons that my last vehicle purchase was a Honda is because they have kept the climate control buttons and the volume knob for the radio. I decided against a few brands because they had those things into a shitty touchscreen.
Now if they could just get a more responsive touchscreen model I would be even happier!
The fact you have to watch out for a physical volume knob nowadays is wild. Imo the shitty implementation winner is by far Renault with the ZE50 EV. Its radio has a permanent volume touch button, which opens a new view with touch buttons for volume up and down.
Whichever Renault engineer or executive thought that this was a good idea in any way, shape or form deserves many punches to the face. Apparently later models now have permanent touch buttons for volume up and down, which I guess is at least slightly better (although still horribly inferior to a knob).
It's worth noting that there are steering wheel volume buttons for the driver, but it's still horrible and sucks for passengers.
yay
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