Controlling everything in a car through screens is a safety hazard.
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Controlling everything in a car through screens is a safety hazard. It's insane that's even allowed.
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Controlling everything in a car through screens is a safety hazard. It's insane that's even allowed.
There are very few core controls and they should absolutely be physical.
I hate screens as much as anyone but I honestly don't think there's much that can't be put behind one.
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There are very few core controls and they should absolutely be physical.
I hate screens as much as anyone but I honestly don't think there's much that can't be put behind one.
Climate controls need to be physical, though.
They are safety critical when your windscreen fogs over.
Radio, too. For emergency broadcasts.
And obviously any driving controls, like lights, indicators, cruise control, wipers, ...Basically, anything that was present in a car 30 years ago needs to have physical buttons.
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Climate controls need to be physical, though.
They are safety critical when your windscreen fogs over.
Radio, too. For emergency broadcasts.
And obviously any driving controls, like lights, indicators, cruise control, wipers, ...Basically, anything that was present in a car 30 years ago needs to have physical buttons.
Climate controls need to be physical, though.
I had an 02 Peugot with automated climate controls. Shits not new. it's one of the few cases where I will not go back to the caveman way. automated headlights are another.
a case can be made for demister buttons but I haven't owned a car made this century that would fog up so that's a pull over and figure this shit out for the first time affair not a take your eyes off the road and dick around with controls physical or otherwise affair.
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Climate controls need to be physical, though.
I had an 02 Peugot with automated climate controls. Shits not new. it's one of the few cases where I will not go back to the caveman way. automated headlights are another.
a case can be made for demister buttons but I haven't owned a car made this century that would fog up so that's a pull over and figure this shit out for the first time affair not a take your eyes off the road and dick around with controls physical or otherwise affair.
Any car will fog up when you get in with 4 people in wet clothes while it rains.
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Climate controls need to be physical, though.
They are safety critical when your windscreen fogs over.
Radio, too. For emergency broadcasts.
And obviously any driving controls, like lights, indicators, cruise control, wipers, ...Basically, anything that was present in a car 30 years ago needs to have physical buttons.
Disagree about radio (if it’s really that urgent to receive an emergency broadcast you can pull over for a moment), but yeah the rest seem like it’s best to have physical controls for everything else.
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Any car will fog up when you get in with 4 people in wet clothes while it rains.
again that's not something you should be dealing with doing 110 on the freeway while steering with your knees and eating cup ramen.
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Disagree about radio (if it’s really that urgent to receive an emergency broadcast you can pull over for a moment), but yeah the rest seem like it’s best to have physical controls for everything else.
The volume down is important.
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Do you live somewhere not humid? My 2016 fiesta fogs up pretty badly.
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Disagree about radio (if it’s really that urgent to receive an emergency broadcast you can pull over for a moment), but yeah the rest seem like it’s best to have physical controls for everything else.
That's theoretically correct, however, when picking safety standards you should go by how most people would be expected to act, not by ideal scenarios. Is someone commuting to work going to pull over to change the media source or radio station? Probably not. So the controls should minimize how long the driver will look at the console and have their hand off the steering wheel. Media buttons on the steering wheel can seem superfluous, but it helps keep people less distracted.
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again that's not something you should be dealing with doing 110 on the freeway while steering with your knees and eating cup ramen.
I think my "peak American" was that time many years ago when I went driving down the I35 interstate in rural Kansas...eating a plate of chicken fettuccine alfredo.
It's OK. The statute of limitations has long passed.
Although, now that I think of it, this might be my peak Italian moment, though I'm not of Italian ancestry...
Anyway, it was
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The volume down is important.
That's usually on the steering wheel for a while now. I do agree with more physical buttons though.
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I think my "peak American" was that time many years ago when I went driving down the I35 interstate in rural Kansas...eating a plate of chicken fettuccine alfredo.
It's OK. The statute of limitations has long passed.
Although, now that I think of it, this might be my peak Italian moment, though I'm not of Italian ancestry...
Anyway, it was
deliciousFazoli's.Absolutely not. Italians may drive like madmen, but they drive well and are focussed.
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Controlling everything in a car through screens is a safety hazard. It's insane that's even allowed.
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That's usually on the steering wheel for a while now. I do agree with more physical buttons though.
just because it is doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be regulated to be
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just because it is doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be regulated to be
Also, it tends to be easier to find the volume knob or dedicated volume keys than trying to see if the label on the steering wheel is for volume, skip tracks or cruise control. Not as important on your car, but it comes into play for rentals and/or borrowed cars.
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Absolutely not. Italians may drive like madmen, but they drive well and are focussed.
Why not? The world is in chaos anyway (e.g. the icon for taco looks like some Taco Bell creation
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We have a 2015 Toyota Highlander with automatic climate controls. Except when it's 72° outside and 110° inside the car when I get in, I don't want it lazily blowing 72° air at me (which it does sometimes), I want it to blow ice cold air for several minutes so I don't sweat my balls off. Having physical controls is quite nice for that. I can set it back to 72 or 69^nice^ or whatever after the fact.
Both of my cars have automatic headlights, so 95% of the time we don't really touch those controls. Every once in a while I'll turn them on during a storm, when the light level isn't quite low enough to trigger the headlights.
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Controlling everything in a car through screens is a safety hazard. It's insane that's even allowed.
It's insane that as of now it's up to manufacturers to self-regulate.
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I just bought a newish car and would not even consider any without physical buttons for climate. It really helped narrow the options, haha.
I don't disagree, but what's up with climate? Of all the things I change during a drive, climate is probably the least used one. IMO, if the car has a decent HVAC system, it should be set and forget (less the defroster and A/C max in summer).
It might be that manufacturers see in their data that most people use it set and forget nowadays anyways, which made the cost cutting decision easier.
