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Just don’t use ”infotainment” when driving. Changing the lights and wipers or heating the windows isn’t infotainment and should be dedicated buttons you can fin
by alkonaut 6y ago
Just don’t use ”infotainment” when driving. Changing the lights and wipers or heating the windows isn’t infotainment and should be dedicated buttons you can find without taking your eyes of the road.
But changing the car setup, choosing a navigation destination or changing playlists? Excellent on touchscreens. Almost impossible to even make well any other way. So don’t do that while driving! That touchscreen has 3 uses 1) as a read only screen for the driver when driving 2) as an interactive screen for the driver when parked 3) as an interactive screen for the passenger.
What’s important is to not conflate entertainment and setup on one hand and driving on the other. Those are completely different use cases and need completely different interfaces.
If a car brand puts lights or wiper controls on the touchscreen please don’t call it “infotainment”. It’s like putting the steering wheel on the touch screen. It’s driving controls. They don’t belong there.
- swiley 6y ago>Changing the lights and wipers or heating the windows isn’t infotainment and should be dedicated buttons you can find without taking your eyes of the road. It should be but isn't unfortunately. Also the radio is important, in the US at least driving for hours at a time is pretty normal and you need any tool you can get to keep yourself awake, that includes things like the radio. >Excellent on touchscreens. IMO the only thing "Excellent" on touchscreens is scrolling and that's only multi-touch screens which many cars don't have (and you absolutely shouldn't be scrolling and driving, heck have some beer instead of doing that.)
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- Daho0n 6y agoLike Porsche with touchscreen control of air vents..
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- Karunamon 6y agoTesla too. Vent control strikes me as one of those things that has no business being driven by the infotainment system when manual or dedicated controls are so easy and intuitive.
- onli 6y agoAlso see the tesla wiper speed case - touchscreen caused crash when driver tried to adjust wiper speed, but ruled to be his fault as using the touchscreen while driving was illegal [0]. Those touchscreen controls are not only dangerous, they are gonna be outlawed. Something to consider when buying a new car; Even if you don't value your safety, might value the lost value of the car... [0]: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/tech-zukunft/tesla-unfall-gerichtsurteil-gegen-touchscreenbedienung-fuer-scheibenwischer/ https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/tech-zukunft/tesla-unfal...
- chrisseaton 6y ago> Just don’t use ”infotainment” when driving. This isn't good blanket advice - listening to the radio for example is a good way to stay awake and alert on long drives, good mapping can mean you can plan things like exits more early and safely than if you have to wait for signs, and reversing cameras can show you blind spots where dangers can lie.
- alkonaut 6y agoRadio has different UIs for setting up (finding) stations, making lists of favorites etc. Great on a touchscreen. Just cycling presets doesn’t need a touchscreen and I’d assume almost all modern cars even do that on the steering wheel (volume up down and track/channel step).
- chrisseaton 6y agoRight but I thought you were arguing "Just don’t use ”infotainment” when driving" and these are still part of the infotainment systems. No need to throw out everything just because of touchscreens.
- falcolas 6y agoAll of this worked fine for neigh on half a century. My fathers ‘77 Ford pickup had radio channel presets and basic audio fidelity controls.