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So many smartphones with digitizers having dead zones after just four years....

• ashtonkem 5y ago
  Car screens are built to different tolerances than cell phones. In particular they must survive a much more harsh environment than most other consumer electronics. This is precisely why the first Tesla screens were so shocking in their size and so unreliable; when Elon Musk found out that he couldn’t get auto screens that large he demanded they use consumer screens, which yellowed and failed due to the heat cars are exposed to. Car screens and normal screens are not the same, at all. This situation is exactly the same as the tractor example above. You’re taking a similar but different object built for different use cases and different financial and engineering constraints, and declaring that the outcome of one is predictive of another.
  • newsclues 5y ago
    I’m not referring to the big screens but the replacement of buttons and knobs with multiple small ones. Like putting touch screens on the steering wheel!
    • ashtonkem 5y ago
      How many vehicles do that though? I can only think of Tesla, and they’re already pretty notoriously unreliable straight from the factory. All of the vehicles I’ve been in, including at trade shows, had physical buttons for most of the vehicle functions, and touch screens for secondary and tertiary operations.
      • newsclues 5y ago
        Ferrari is the only one I can remember but it’s a trend car reviewers have negatively remarked upon