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I am a huge fan of knobs I can feel without looking to see if I got the right part of the smooth glass surface. “The elevated center console stretches down fro

I am a huge fan of knobs I can feel without looking to see if I got the right part of the smooth glass surface. “The elevated center console stretches down from the horizontal central screen to two air vents that are not the mechanically operated louvres found in most vehicles today. Instead, the direction of the airflow is controlled digitally via an 8.4-inch touch panel located just below the central screen. This touch panel houses the climate control system and includes a track pad with haptic feedback.” Way to make something perfectly simple and reliable for the last 50 years in to a pile of hot garbage.

masklinn 7y ago
It needs to be said that car makers still manage to fuck up dials when leaving them in (as digital) e.g. I was watching a car review yesterday, the "driving mode" selector was a clicky 5-position dial (so far so good). It wouldn't "cycle around", from the center point (normal driving) you could go two ticks to the left or two ticks to the right, but not "through" to the bottom. However the dial would keep turning, that turning just wouldn't do anything until you started turning the other way. An other such experience was the same driving mode selection idea on an other car I rented a few months back, one of the modes would (I guess) only be available when stopped. However it would not tell you that. The dial would still stop every 1/5th of a turn, but instead of selecting the next mode it would select the one after that, moving the selector 1/5th ahead of the dial every turn with no idea why the 2 stops you felt had moved the selector ahead 3 places (and to the wrong mode).
ahartmetz 7y ago
Cars have long product cycles. They might be kicking themselves for going all in on something so obviously(•) dumb, but they have to pretend to be proud of it and sell it now... It's kind of funny really. More likely, they haven't noticed the problem yet but they will, later. (•) Obvious to people who can think while the fashion is current, obvious to everyone later

masklinn 7y ago

It needs to be said that car makers still manage to fuck up dials when leaving them in (as digital) e.g. I was watching a car review yesterday, the "driving mode" selector was a clicky 5-position dial (so far so good). It wouldn't "cycle around", from the center point (normal driving) you could go two ticks to the left or two ticks to the right, but not "through" to the bottom. However the dial would keep turning, that turning just wouldn't do anything until you started turning the other way. An other such experience was the same driving mode selection idea on an other car I rented a few months back, one of the modes would (I guess) only be available when stopped. However it would not tell you that. The dial would still stop every 1/5th of a turn, but instead of selecting the next mode it would select the one after that, moving the selector 1/5th ahead of the dial every turn with no idea why the 2 stops you felt had moved the selector ahead 3 places (and to the wrong mode).

ahartmetz 7y ago

Cars have long product cycles. They might be kicking themselves for going all in on something so obviously(•) dumb, but they have to pretend to be proud of it and sell it now... It's kind of funny really. More likely, they haven't noticed the problem yet but they will, later. (•) Obvious to people who can think while the fashion is current, obvious to everyone later