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Buttons, dials and knobs

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  • J Jolly
    25 Mar 2023, 13:14

    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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    George K
    wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 13:17 last edited by
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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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      Axtremus
      wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 15:13 last edited by
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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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        Mik
        wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 15:23 last edited by Mik
        #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

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        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          taiwan_girl
          wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 17:34 last edited by
          #11

          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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          • M Mik
            25 Mar 2023, 15:23

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

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            mark
            wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 17:56 last edited by
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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

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            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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              Jolly
              wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 18:00 last edited by
              #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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              • J Jolly
                25 Mar 2023, 18:00

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

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                mark
                wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 18:35 last edited by
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                @Jolly it's crap.

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                  Jolly
                  wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 18:55 last edited by Jolly
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                  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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                  • M mark
                    25 Mar 2023, 18:35

                    @Jolly it's crap.

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                    Mik
                    wrote on 25 Mar 2023, 20:51 last edited by
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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.

                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      Doctor Phibes
                      wrote on 26 Mar 2023, 00:48 last edited by
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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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