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I didn't mean to infer that they were bad, only that they are used indiscriminately. Take a look at the fan control, for example. Toyota, it's a dial, Nissan is
by jbob2000 11y ago
I didn't mean to infer that they were bad, only that they are used indiscriminately. Take a look at the fan control, for example. Toyota, it's a dial, Nissan is a slider, BMW is two buttons for increase and decrease speed. To open the trunk on a Toyota, you press a button, but other models, you pull a latch. On some BMWs, you unlock the doors with a button on the dash. Most cars have a button on the driver side door, but some will even have this as an on/off switch.
I'll stop there, but my point is that car manufacturers haven't been able to figure out a "universal interface". Apple was able to do this with the iPhone (touch screen), so I wonder now if they can do it with cars.
- ccozan 11y agoYou mean, I will "slide to unlock" to enter my iCar?
- arbitrage 11y agoApple wasn't first to come up with that interface.
- Too 11y agoCar manufactures have figured out a "universal interface" (buttons) as much as iPhone figured out touch screen. There is nothing universal about the iphone interaction except that you touch it, for example it doesn't have a back button which most other manufactures do. Behind that touch screen you have the same mess of buttons/sliders/dropdowns/checkboxes/toggles between different models, as in cars.