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Engineers have proven themselves unable to solve this. I will do so now: (1) have ONE pushable and turnable knob, somewhere - steering wheel, dash, doesn't mat
by MarkLowenstein 6y ago
Engineers have proven themselves unable to solve this. I will do so now:
(1) have ONE pushable and turnable knob, somewhere - steering wheel, dash, doesn't matter
(2) 25-30 one-word voice commands: "volume"/"louder"/"hotter"/"A-C"/"radio"/"front"
Want to turn on the radio? Say "radio", push button. Louder? "louder", turn knob. Cooler? Say "A-C", push button, turn knob. "Fan", turn. Maybe some white noise feedback while turning it, to indicate whether you're in the low range or high range. Done!
- lhorie 6y agoGod no. Have you actually tried using voice commands in a car? It just doesn't work. Also, I have a turnable+pushable knob in my car and it's frankly terrible because it's very easy to accidentally push when you're trying to turn. What is far easier to do is to make it so that turning a knob says via audio what action is selected. Then you press a different button to confirm.
- CharlesW 6y ago> Have you actually tried using voice commands in a car? It just doesn't work. I have 3 years of experience with a CarPlay-enabled car, and Siri mostly just works as a voice interface. (But to your point, car makers' home-grown solutions are almost comically bad.)
- MarkLowenstein 6y agoI'm hoping that by offering simple and intuitive words we could have success where most have failed (overloaded so that hotter, temperature, colder, heat, heater are all recognized, but all mean the same thing).
- lhorie 6y ago> car makers' home-grown solutions are almost comically bad Exactly. Judging by how they are managing to make the worst possible decisions wrt touchscreen offerings, I'm not holding my breath for siri-like voice activation from car makers
- viburnum 6y agoMy car’s voice activated controls work great but my brain doesn’t. If I use it then I get tunnel vision so badly that I’m essentially blind.