• @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    The fact that they needed to receive a lot of complaints to reconsider makes me wonder - do they even do any kind of usability testing for their products? Anyone who even sat in a car with only touchscreen can tell you the experience is not comfortable.

    And I don’t think it’s just about the price of physical buttons. Buttons are a selling point right now, they could charge a small premium (not in the thousands but ~$200 certainly.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      It’s probably a cost issue. Running one wire harness to a touch screen is a lot cheaper than running a wire to every button in a car.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        It’s also a “We can charge $900 for this $80 touchscreen when it fails in 5 years because your car is a brick without it” issue.

      • DaDragon
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        I hate the fact that you’re probably right about that reason.

        • @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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          51 year ago

          Never read from a book that summons demons

          I know they said “What you do in High School will affect your entire life” but I didn’t think it would be this bad! It was only once! I swear!

    • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      Oh they KNEW what they were doing and just didn’t give a fuck.

      We need a People of Walmart equivalent for this bullshit. Start finding the designer/engineer/manager responsible for this garbage and shame them publicly.

      How does this stuff pass any kind of Accessibility regs?

    • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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      I wonder if it’s a planning issue. Buttons you have to actually plan out. Touchscreen? Plop it in.

      • @psud@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        You have the software design costs, which are high but one-off, so they’re amortised over the entire production - and it’s either the same or nearly the same across each brand’s entire range

    • @FishFace@lemmy.world
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      Besides cost, we should probably at least entertain the idea that we are a vocal minority. I’d be completely unsurprised to find out that the majority of people hardly ever touch the controls that got moved to touchscreens and, if they do, they don’t really care - they can set them before they set off, or do it while driving and wobble all over the road, but hey everyone does it so what does it matter?

  • @Betch@lemmy.world
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    Yeah I really hope other car makers follow because I fucking hate touch controls in cars with a burning passion. It’s idiotic and not safe at all.

    • @Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Same goes for kitchens. Give me real buttons and knobs and not these abhorrent touch panels that refuse to work every third time. A good quality kitchen appliance is identified by high quality knobs that last for decades.

      • @Wrench@lemmy.world
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        Touch screens especially don’t make sense in the cooking context, where your hands are likely to be wet / damp.

        • @FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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          181 year ago

          Touch controls for burners are very dangerous in my opinion. What if i spill oil on the stove and touch screen? Now the oil might stop me from turning off the heat and the situation could quickly turn into a fire.

          • @xthexder@l.sw0.com
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            That’s a thing? Holy shit… And here I thought the worst offender was Tesla’s yolk steering wheel with a capacitive touch horn “button”.

          • Dojan
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            I’ve had similar situations happen before. Moved into this apartment in September. This stove will be the death of me.

          • Joe Cool
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            That’s why they have spill detection. Try pouring water over the touch controls. It should beep, then turn off. It’s not a good solution or better than a knob, but better than nothing. Except your spill doesn’t flow over the controls. Then good luck.

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        In general high quality things tend to have physical buttons and knobs as opposed to touch screen devices.

        Instead of turning into e-waste after 5 years or less they can last for the next 30 to 50 years.

        How many smart thermostats have become obsolete because their service providers stopped providing cloud services for them?

        I just tore apart a working thermostat that almost 80 years old now (to understand how it works) and in perfectly working condition. It uses the physical properties of the materials inside to measure temperature (a coil of metal expands and contracts causing a pendulum to move clockwise or counterclockwise). Suspended at the top of this pendulum is a small vial of mercury containing two electrodes. When the pendulum is far enough counterclockwise the Mercury slides in the vial and bridges the electrodes, turning the furnace on, when the pendulum is far enough clockwise the mercury slides to the right and no longer bridges the electrodes.

        When you set the temperature on the thermostat you are changing the default position of this pendulum. Meaning that it has to move more or less distance for the bead of mercury to bridge the circuit.

        It’s brilliantly simple and will continue to work essentially forever. The physical characteristics of the materials involved won’t change.

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          How many smart thermostats have become obsolete because their service providers stopped providing cloud services for them?

          Same goes for pretty much every IoT device that people seem to be filling their homes with.

          • capital
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            This is why, going forward, smart home products I buy have to be zigbee or zwave so I can integrate it with home assistant.

              • capital
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                lol from the outside I can see how you’d think that.

              • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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                Yeah that’s how things are now.

                I was looking for kitchen scale and not a single recognisable brand was there on Amazon. No Phillips, Bosch, Siemens, Panasonic etc.

                Don’t know if these companies even make things like that anymore.

                • @silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today
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                  Yeah Amazon has opened the door to the lowest quality hardware out of China to put most name brands out of business for lower priced goods.

              • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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                Haha yeah they’re IoT protocols for smarthome stuff. But an open source software called Home Assistant can talk to it, so you can self-host your home automation without your home being subject to the whims of some fragile tech startup and by extension, their investors.

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                  Oh I see, that’s helpful and makes sense. I’m one of those newbs who took 15 hours to set up my own Jellyfin. Self hosting Home automation is a ways off in the distance for me haha.

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        I pumped gas at a brand new Shell station over the weekend. The controls for the pump was one GIANT touchscreen (I’m talking probably 12 inches wide by 36 inches tall). It was fucking PAINFUL to use. Every touch took 2-3 seconds for the action to happen. Da fuck is wrong with a regular pump and regular buttons that just work!?

        • FaceDeer
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          In Canada it really sucks having to take your gloves off half the year. I hope this gets taken into account when touchscreens on gas pumps are considered.

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            Try wearing very thin neoprene under your bigger gloves. It’s been a game changer for me. I have a horrible habit of taking my gloves off from years of snowboarding and those have been awesome.

        • 567PrimeMover
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          Because then they don’t have a display the size of a living room TV to shove ads in your face

        • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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          It should be illegal to connect a touch screen to a computer that runs like a potato. Even computers in the 80s could respond to keystrokes and mouse clicks in real time.

          • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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            It seems to be a very popular mindset in software development that efficiency isn’t as important because of how fast hardware has gotten.

            This sucks because I don’t get better hardware just to make up for worse software (not that it even does; a lot of browser-based apps are painfully slow), and some of these devs end up working on weaker platforms that don’t make up for their shitty programming. They might not ever touch the platform it is actually supposed to run on and instead work on a dev machine that is powerful enough to make it look good. It’s possible that neither them nor anyone hiring/managing them realizes that they aren’t the kind of programmer they want.

            Though it’s also possible that the programmers are fine and have told their managers that the CPUs just aren’t powerful enough for what they want them to do but some assholes are only looking at the bottom line and have low standards for these kind of things in their own life (my TV is slow, so it’s no big deal that our car interface is slow).

            Worst thing is it’s probably less than a $50 difference in cost to switch to something that could handle it fine, assuming it’s not programmed in JavaScript and HTML or slow because it’s backend is on the cloud or some shit like that, which also wouldn’t surprise me.

            • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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              It seems to be a very popular mindset in software development that efficiency isn’t as important because of how fast hardware has gotten.

              How’s this for irony: I was hired at my current job as part of a team whose whole mission is to address performance problems in a large desktop app…that’s written entirely in Typescript!

              • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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                It’s kinda funny how some are willing to develop a skill to great depth (you’d have to know JavaScript/TypeScript very well to write a full deal desktop application in it, and it probably involved a LOT of frustrating debug if performance is the main issue with it) but don’t spend any time on breadth to understand that some depths aren’t worth it.

          • capital
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            If it keeps getting broken they might reconsider.

          • @psud@lemmy.world
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            We used to have a rule in computer system design that if an event would take more than 4 seconds we had to show a “waiting” icon like the hourglass.

            Now though, people are sensitive to half a second between tap/click and something happening. Incidentally there’s no reason for a fuel pump control to be slow, even running on a potato. The engineer who designed it wasn’t given time to make it efficient

        • @topinambour_rex@lemmy.world
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          Your experience remembers me those old touch screen we had at the library in the 90s. The screen was monochrome, but touch sensitive. It took several seconds for react.

        • @ZiemekZ@lemmy.world
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          What do you need a touchscreen for? You just take an appropriate pump (E95, Diesel), fill the fuel and pay at the register.

          • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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            Because it’s way faster to pay at the pump and not have to go inside. I’ve only been inside a gas station like 4-5 times in the last decade.

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        I was boiling pasta earlier and my fucking stove turned itself off and engaged the child lock because water splashed onto those controls. THREE TIMES!

        I’ve had this piece of shit literally ruin dinner before. It’s amazing how it can be both really nice and really fucking useless at the same time.

      • @Betch@lemmy.world
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        Agreed, it’s true for most devices. They’re often finicky, don’t offer anything in terms of feedback (Except maybe for a beep that is identical for all button presses) and they don’t last.

      • @ominouslemon@lemm.ee
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        Omg I feel that. The oven in my apartment has touch controls. When I’m baking stuff with lots of moisture inside, water evaporates and is expelled though a vent JUST BELOW the touch controls. The condensation makes them completely unresponsive. Smh

        • @CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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          You have to wonder if the engineer who designed that was a complete dumbass because it seems remarkably obvious that you’d want to keep moisture away from electronics.

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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        I’m really on the fence when it comes to kitchens because a) you actually have time to look at what you’re doing – if you need to lower temperature suddenly the better option is to take your pan off the stove, anyway and b) touch controls are trivial to clean.

        What I can’t stand though is scales manufactures being so cheap as to not even have capacitive buttons but re-use the front left/right feet as sensors for the interface. On the upside the thing was dirt cheap and actually comes with an USB-C port to charge its LIR2450 cell.

      • Alex
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        I like touch panels but don’t mind physical buttons.

    • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      It’s idiotic and not safe at all.

      Not to mention completely useless in places where you need to wear gloves when driving.

      • @ZiemekZ@lemmy.world
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        wear gloves when driving

        For example?
        If it’s so cold that you wear gloves, then get your AC fixed because it should’ve been running by the time you drive off.

          • @ZiemekZ@lemmy.world
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            it’s frequently 10 Fahrenheit or lower in the winter

            Fair enough, we don’t hit such temperatures regularly in Warsaw (Poland).

            a literal freezing steering wheel

            Is it that bad? Wow. Didn’t know that. I though the cage would provide at least some thermal insulation.

            hold on to it for 10 mins until the heat kicks on

            If my colleagues lived in a climate as cold as yours, they’d have mounted parking heaters (e.g. Webasto) by now. Electrics struggle in cold, but they can preheat themselves before the ride, using just the electricity.

            I’m assuming you live in a warm place

            Warsaw is at the same latitude as Edmonton in Canada, so shouldn’t be really that warmer.

            or don’t drive a car

            Winter 2022/23 was when we still were in our previous office. It was ½ hour long commute with my Xiaomi M365 electric scooter. This winter 2023/24 we moved to an office further away, so I was forced to change my daily vehicle to a motorcycle, maxiscooter SYM MaxSym 600i ABS. At least you have the goddamn cage.

            Wish I had public transportation.

            I miss having good alternative commute via metro and tram to our old office. Took almost the same time as e-scooter. But our new office? Public transit takes 2x as long as a motorcycle commute, according to Google Maps Timeline, so might as well not exist. So now we’re in similar situation. Wish you luck…

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              Warsaw is at the same latitude as Edmonton in Canada, so shouldn’t be really that warmer.

              Reading a climate chart for Warsaw, it seems like January lows average out to -5C and your coldest days dip under -20C? Feel free to correct that considering you would know better than I.

              In Edmonton, January lows average to -15C, and winter temperatures can dip down to -35C (or rarely even worse) along with nasty winds. It’s a surprisingly harsh climate.

              I live around Ottawa, Canada and our winter experience is basically Edmonton with less wind and more humidity. You scrape the ice off your car and drive with gloves on because otherwise it would take 15 minutes to heat it up enough to be comfortable. Seat warmers are cherished here.

            • @cestvrai@lemm.ee
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              Warsaw, same as other European cities, is a lot warmer than North American cities of the same latitude due to warming from the Gulf Stream.

              Gloves are not optional in cold climates.

          • @psud@lemmy.world
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            They probably drive a car where they can tell the car to warm or cool the cabin remotely. My problem is opposite yours, even with the windscreen covered the car will heat to 50°C (112°F) and if sunlight was on anything, that thing will be too hot to touch.

            So I tell my car to keep the air con on while I’m in the shops, tell it to start cooling when I’m returning to it after I’ve been away longer than I like to run AC

            In your scenario, I would ask the car to be warm an hour before I needed it

        • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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          My car takes 15 minutes to warm up enough for the heat to work at all let alone get the interior to a comfortable temperature.

    • @poppy@lemm.ee
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      I got a new car two years ago, and physical buttons were one of the determining factors.

    • @Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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      That’s not true though. This happened in their EVs regardless of price range. Even the Porsche Taycan which requires using a screen to adjust HVAC vents. Other than some steering wheel buttons the Taycan is all screens.

      The Audi E-Tron GT (same chassis as the Taycan) oddly enough has more buttons. But that’s because VAG makes sure Porsche and Audi interiors are slightly different for different market segments.

      It’s more about VAG thinking (like many automakers) copying the Tesla trend was what people wanted. The mistake made was not considering Tesla early adopters often being techy people who might not match broader market opinion.

  • @squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world
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    Good. Touchscreens are the most unsafe feature added to vehicles in decades. It’s honestly mind boggling how it was allowed in the first place.

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      Easy, because regulations don’t mean anything anymore.

      Headlights that blind you in the day and literally block all vision of the road at night, road legal trucks which bumpers that START at the hood of my car, all around limo tints on literally every car, people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

      And that doesn’t even begin to mention the drivers themselves, so fucking self absorbed, tailgating, cutting you off for fun to get to the same light.

      I’ve literally had a stream of cars going around me on street roads and so many dumbasses just follow the stream that I literally cannot safety accelerate because they’re all cutting me off bumper to bumper.

      You should start carrying a gun if not already. The conservatives have successfully rotted western society.

      • @Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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        While you have some good points, it seems you may be missing one in that if you are constantly getting passed in that manner, you are causing a problem, regardless of what is posted. Most western law systems have a provision against impeding the flow of traffic.

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          Problem is when you get passed because other people aren’t driving legally. Even if it’s the flow of traffic, you’re still technically not allowed to break the law.

          • @Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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            Yes, exactly. So try to realize that not keeping out of the lane to pass is still an infraction on your part and let traffic enforcement do their job. It’s actually easier for them to witness you impeding multiple vehicles and pull you over than to track down everyone passing you, so don’t get yourself into a completely avoidable situation. Nobody passes you and later on reflects on the point you were trying to make.

              • @Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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                Can you differentiate staying out of the lane to pass from staying out of the passing lane? Don’t try to bring your petulant road anger to me, silly goose. You have even less power and impression here than on the road. Allow me to demonstrate with my next reply.

                • Pelicanen
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                  What? What are you talking about? I’m confused, are you having an episode?

          • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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            Even if the people overtaking you on the Autobahn break the speed limit (yes those exist), you still have to keep to the right as much as possible. Hogging the left lane at exactly the speed limit is vigilantism.

            • Pelicanen
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              I’m confused, did I miss someone mentioning staying in the left lane on the highway?

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                You mentioned getting passed which should only ever happen, in civilised countries with sane traffic laws, on the left. (modulo countries which drive on the left where it’s the right).

                Like, breaking the speed limit gets you a ticket over here. Overtaking on the right can easily mean losing your license and having to undergo a psych exam as they take such things as an opportunity to accuse you of racing on public roads.

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                  They’re in the right lane and getting passed by cars on the left. I’m really confused by what you’re trying to say. What makes you think they’re blocking traffic?

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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        Headlights that blind you in the day and literally block all vision of the road at night,

        Illegal in the EU, Xenon and later LEDs always needed automatic height adjustment (it doesn’t suffice to do it once because cars change angles continuously). Lots has changed in the last 20+ years, though, speaking of VW: How about high beams all the time unless there’s something that could be blinded, then switch them off locally but keep the rest bright.

        road legal trucks which bumpers that START at the hood of my car,

        Like this?

        all around limo tints on literally every car,

        Illegal.

        people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

        Illegal.

        And that doesn’t even begin to mention the drivers themselves, so fucking self absorbed, tailgating, cutting you off for fun to get to the same light.

        See the thing is that if you build your infrastructure in a way that requires people to drive cars you can’t just take licenses away from asshats.

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

        That might be people with daytime running lights not turning on the lights. My car will turn on the headlights as soon as I take the parking break off (MT, an auto would likely do it when put in drive), but the dash and rear lights don’t turn on unless I turn the dial.

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        Headlights that blind you in the day and literally block all vision of the road at night, road legal trucks which bumpers that START at the hood of my car, all around limo tints on literally every car, people disabling their rear lights for some idiotic reason…

        pretty sure all of those are illegal around here, with exception of the giant compensators.

      • @paradiso@lemm.ee
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        Had me until the politics, but I agree. These fucking headlights nowadays are incredibly dangerous, especially on these lifted garage queens.

    • @jasondj@ttrpg.network
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      They are a lot safer now that we have LKAS and ACC and FCW systems. But that’s moreso in spite of the touchscreens.

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    and to add insult to injury, I couldn’t turn the heater on countless times because the climate portion of the OS was unresponsive. Other times, it would simply say that the function couldn’t be performed at the time. Why? No idea.

    This is the main problem, not something about the UI being wonky. That my AC can freeze not because of the radiator but because of a shitty UI system? That’s insane.

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    Seems the novelty VW engineers had to be reminded of the first item in the Unix philosophy:

    Make each program do one thing, and do it well.

    Buttons already had this. Each single button did one and only one thing: Turn a feature on or off, or in the case of the radio, switch stations.

    We didn’t need complicated menus to navigate. Press the appropriate button, and voilá. It was simple. It worked.

    Who the fuck came up with the idea of having to use touch menus? I have no idea, but I really hope they got fired.

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      I get what you’re saying, up to a point. But you really don’t want the dashboard to look like the average TV remote either.

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        would take TV remote over touch display any day, those things are horrible in so many ways, lack of tactile feedback and having to confirm it registered the input is literally a lethal hazard because it’s another reason people aren’t looking on the road while driving

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        I mean, I get a bit jealous when I see the cockpit of an F1 car. So many knobs, buttons, and switches and they don’t even have climate control or entertainment systems.

        That level isn’t necessary with daily drivers, but I’d rather have physical buttons for any action I’ll want to do while moving and zero latency for any action that physically positions something like my seat or mirrors.

      • @Threeme2189@lemmy.world
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        Have you ever seen an airplane cockpit? Those things are crowded and confusing. A car, on the other hand, is simple enough that the average person gets used to all of the button, knobs, switches and dials in a few days.

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          I would be down with that, 100%.

          My car doesn’t have nearly that many functions, though. Nor do I want it to. Owners of modern cars would shit a brick if they saw the dash on my '99 Silverado and how simple it is. It has a grand total of about 12 buttons on it, and three dials. That’s it.

          Somehow it manages to drive down the road just fine, heat or cool the interior, twiddle all the lights, change all the radio stations, play or rewind the tape. (Yes, tape.) Just with those few controls, all of which only do one thing. Except the turn signal stalk, and technically I guess the shifter lever because it has the tow/haul button on the end of it.

          The amount of bullshit that’s built into modern cars is astounding. The majority of that crap doesn’t need to be in a car. Which is, you know, a transportation machine. If the passenger wants four touch screens, that’s fine. I don’t need one. I don’t want one.

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          Not that airliners don’t have a lot of things to press (and two people to press them), but the majority of the controls in that image are the navigation, radio, and autopilot controls.

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          I really just need the “fix” button

          Edit: “legs” could also work of adequately sexy

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    531 year ago

    I test drove one, and the touch buttons were ass, but nobody mentions the lag. There’s ZERO feedback, do you press the button again and watch the screen show you turn the thing on and then back off.

    I would NEVER buy a car with touch controls based on this experience. It was horrible.

    • @f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I swore I would never buy a car with a touchscreen, but I ended up with a Toyota with no noticable touch lag and physical controls for everything important. The steering wheel buttons also replicate all phone- and radio-related functions that are on the touchscreen.

      The wife’s Honda (a few years older) has too many physical controls. For example, I’m fairly certain you could turn on heat for the driver and rear passenger-side, and air conditioning for the passenger and rear driver-side, if you really wanted to.

      • @popcap200@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        Oh yeah, honestly, I don’t mind the controls on a touchscreen as you get immediate feedback on most, if not all cars, but for some reason on that GTI, the touch buttons on the dashboard and wheel didn’t work for me at all.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I wonder if that’s a lingering effect from the auto chip shortage from 2020 (limited choice lead to using processors less powerful than they’d like), or just the general shitty quality common when companies try to add features outside of what they are familiar with? Maybe combined with hiring shitty developers that want to run a full browser stack when they need to be doing embedded real-time programming instead?