Touchscreens in cars are worse than knobs because they have no tactile information, making it impossible to use them without taking your eyes off the road. Proof that the use of touchscreens wasn't implemented because it was a superior tool, but because of profit motive.
I wouldn't be surprised if a car company was sitting on some internal R&D data that showed touch screens caused more accidents, but had just buried it.
Also harder to repair and have other companies make spare parts for.
So when the manufacturer stops producing spares, you have to buy a new car.
So when the manufacturer stops producing spares, you have to buy a new car.
Don't worry, in the future the manufacturer will just send out an OS update that bricks your car
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Don't you see? Competition will force these companies to all stop making the exact same decision to increase profits at the expense of their consumers! Because if they don't, another individual will simply develop an international supply chain and start mass producing cars without touchscreens!
I seriously can't fathom why anyone would want them. You need an index point when using your fingers, a button is made of index points. The plastic around it, bezels, the tactical nature of it.
With a touch screen, your arm is just floating, your point of contact is your fingertip. It's impossible to learn the muscle memory to repeat those actions. But even if you had some crazy nerve-muscle control when you could pick out a point at arms length on a featureless plastic square, your muscle memory would be fucking pointless, because the animations always lag a little so you are required to look anyway.
It reminds me of "Norman doors". Those are the doors with an element like a vertical rail on either side. One side you have to push, on the other you pull, but either side is identical. Meaning that you always end up pushing when you have to pull and vice versa. Most doors you already know to use just by looking at them, because you've used a similar door before. But no matter how many times you've seen a Norman door, you have to learn how that individual door works. With touch screens its similar, even if you've had your car for a long time, you need to learn it each time you use it. It's not just that you take your eyes off the road, you take your brain off the road.
Your body is so cool, it learns things and does them without you having to think about it. I don't have to think about my fingers when I type. I always have to think about what happens when I'm using a touch screen, even as a passenger. Glad I don't have one in my car.
This is depressing. A capacitive touch switch is $0.001, and a physical switch is like $1.
touchscreens are good for things like GPS and "entertainment center" activities, knobs are good for stuff like radio. all i ever really use is the "media control" d-pad on the steering wheel so it doesnt really matter to me lol. resistive touchscreens are so cheap theres no reason not to include them but yeah i agree systems with little-to-no manual controls are bullshit
Guess I'll play the devil's advocate again:
Would you rather fiddle around with your phone (probably mounted to the windshield or air vent, liable to fall) to control the GPS system, music, to answer calls, etc, or use an interface designed to be used in a car?
