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Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I didn't have a car for a few years and the one I had was 2003 (with a slight stint from a similarly-aged car during a couple-month time I had to drive). I now have a car again and I HATE that my heat/air and such are all flat against the panel (not a touch screen, though). I literally can't adjust anything without looking in my current car. Thankfully, I avoid driving it whenever possible.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

thank fuck

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (6 children)

How about just generic opensource communications via Ethernet rj45? Then you just plug in any screen/computer including raspberry pi so you can have whatever system you want.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Won’t someone please think of the shareholders?!!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

You know what I would really hate? Automatic diagnostics on my dashboard. Nah. Please make those as LED blinks where the mechanic has to supply his own LED, Jerry rigged to the obd connector. And make it so that only one guy in Minnesota has the manual. Every mechanic has to contact that guy. Then the mechanic has to interpret the LED Morse code manually. Oh yes this would be so useful. And to add a 3Ghz motherboard with only access to Apple music. Totally awesome. Make the display show a video of "all I want for Christmas is you" I'll certainly be making use of that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I was pleasantly surprised when I sat in a modern Hyundai for the first time (Kona Electric SX2) and there were soooo many buttons. Yes, some things are still touch-controlled, but compared to what I was used to in a Volkswagen it was such a blessing

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

About. Fucking. Time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Now if only that were the case for phones. Blackberry keyboards were better than any shitty touch screen.