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I've got my phone in the cradle and I can look at it whenever I want, even when navigating, and it has no stupid popups or park brake sensor. I don't need stup
by brokenmachine 5y ago
I've got my phone in the cradle and I can look at it whenever I want, even when navigating, and it has no stupid popups or park brake sensor.
I don't need stupid nanny-screens that I have to touch to tell me what to do, and I don't need the screens that I've paid for in my car put in a place where I can't see or use them if I want because I can't be trusted.
I'm an adult and I'm very aware that when I'm driving I should be paying attention to driving and not the screen.
I'm quite capable of deciding when I will look and when I won't look, and I won't have that decision taken away from me by some focus group full of brain-dead idiots or marketing people who derive some kind of sick pleasure from fumbling with touch screens with no tactile feedback.
Feel free to go ahead and design that crap because it will make my next car buying decision really simple.
If you put that kind of crap in a car and I can't turn it off, then I'm not buying that car.
To make it clear:
Any kind of touch screen that I have to press every time I drive to use the screen I paid for = no buy.
If the AC is controlled by a touch screen = no buy.
If volume can be controlled by a touch screen only = no buy.
While I'm at it, let's add this: any kind of tracking that I can't disable = no buy. I don't care about your app.
If I'm spending my multiple tens of thousands of dollars on your car, I'm the owner. Not your moron silicon valley focus group of Elon Musk idolizers and touch screen fetishists.
If nobody wants my money, I'll be very happy driving whatever older car I can buy that has none of this crap forever - and I probably can do that forever because it is likely much more repairable than your garbage touch screens built by the lowest bidder.
Your move, manufacturers.