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Buttons, dials and knobs

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  • JollyJ Jolly

    You can feel for a knob or for a lever without taking your eyes off of the road. You can't do that with a menu on a touch screen.

    Secondly, replace a knob and see what it costs. Now, replace a touchscreen and see what it costs.

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    @Jolly said in Buttons, dials and knobs:

    You can feel for a knob or for a lever without taking your eyes off of the road

    I love steering wheel mounted controls. Stereo volume, Siri, etc.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      Yeap. Also seeing a trend where the on-dash infotainment screens get larger and larger. I have seen on-dash screens larger than an iPad Pro. Not that I have anything against large information screens per se, but the manufacturers put in these big screens without sufficient anti-glare treatment — it’s just dangerous for the driver if a blinding ray of sunlight gets reflected into your eyes from one of those giant screens.

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      • MikM Offline
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        #10

        In Tesla's it's all on the screen in the middle off the dash. This is what my friend's Y looked like

        alt text

        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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          Yes, car makers to want to make things "look modern" just because they can, without thinking weather or not is really is an improvement.

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          • MikM Mik

            In Tesla's it's all on the screen in the middle off the dash. This is what my friend's Y looked like

            alt text

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            @Mik said in Buttons, dials and knobs:

            In Tesla's it's all on the screen in the middle off the dash. This is what my friend's Y looked like

            alt text

            That is the one of the biggest POS car interior designs, I have ever seen.

            It's almost not a design at all.

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            • JollyJ Offline
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              #13

              It's from the Minimalist School of art...

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • JollyJ Jolly

                It's from the Minimalist School of art...

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                @Jolly it's crap.

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                  #15

                  Well, it's that, too....

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  • markM mark

                    @Jolly it's crap.

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                    @mark said in Buttons, dials and knobs:

                    @Jolly it's crap.

                    Don't hold back, mark. Tell us how you really feel.

                    "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                    • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                      It looks like something designed by an engineer rather than a designer.

                      Which probably explains it.

                      I was only joking

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