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It should be illegal to make cars with high latency UIs. It routinely takes 1+ seconds for touchscreen button presses to be registered on my 2015 and 2018 Toyot
by avidphantasm 5y ago
It should be illegal to make cars with high latency UIs. It routinely takes 1+ seconds for touchscreen button presses to be registered on my 2015 and 2018 Toyotas. This leads to erroneous actions being performed, which is not safe. If I were a software engineer on these teams I would quit if these systems were released on my watch.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIt's worse than "erroneous actions being performed". It leads to the driver watching the UI for a second, which, unless you're stopped, is much too long.
- asdff 5y agoSeriously. Computing hardware is an order of magnitude more powerful than in the early 2000s, but the latency bar has never been raised the entire time. You could buy a $1000 TV and it has the same lag while changing channels as the gen 1 720p flatscreen you had in 2005. Manufacturers collectively realized they can get away with substandard products since consumers have no real choice in the marketplace for a lot of products beyond the competitors who have already raced down to the bottom years ago.
- avidphantasm 5y agoGood point. The Toshiba Amazon Fire 4k TV we inherited from my MIL also has atrocious lag. Oh yeah, it also sometimes forgets to do HiHDPI scaling and the UI is consigned to the upper left corner of the screen until a reboot. Utter garbage.
- kehrin 5y agoI'm beginning to think it's on purpose. It seems impossible to me that cars can't handle PlayStation 2 levels of UI. Perhaps it's done to dissuade you from chaining together interactions. Rather, they want you to do one action, then look at the road while it's loading and then do the next action etc.
- detaro 5y agoHaving worked on such software: I wish it was on purpose...