• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    65
    2 months ago

    i'm extremely pissed that melon-musk convinced everyone that the aesthetic of the future was putting a big ass screen for all the car controls. dogshit. asking everybody to drive into each other and die. chinese automakers could be innovating extremely retrofuture tactile controls that do all this cool shit, but no, we just have this nonsense.

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    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
      hexbear
      61
      2 months ago

      That shit should be outlawed and the marketing people who forced the engineers ti make this should be sent to siberia

    • laziestflagellant [they/them]
      hexbear
      32
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      The big "infotainment" screens in cars genuinely give me the heebie jeebies, I can't stand looking at them. It doesn't help that reading text in a moving car as a passenger makes me motion sick.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
      hexbear
      18
      2 months ago

      Maybe the one big screen is a surrogate for the 3+ smartphones each and every Chinese DiDi driver I've ever seen seemingly has.

      • oregoncom [he/him]
        hexbear
        6
        2 months ago

        He did say one of the cars run HarmonyOS so yeah that might be more capable than Android Auto.

    • Pili [any, any]
      hexbear
      14
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      I think the Xiaomi SU7 still has physical buttons in addition to the screen. That's what they show in their promo videos anyway. That car looks so good.

      Edit: yup, it has a bunch of physical switches and even a volume knob, Xiaomi keeps winning.

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    • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
      hexbear
      6
      2 months ago

      though that looks like it has some kind of all-in-one physical interface with the buttons and dial on the middle partition, and also stuff on both sides of the steering wheel

      the screen looks awful but it doesn't seem like you'd use it as a touch screen while driving

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
        hexbear
        7
        2 months ago

        A handful of cars have these weirdo dash pods now, they usually contain massive speakers, a bunch of sensors, or both at the same time.