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I understand your critics against touchscreens and they are justified. Your car doesn’t have a good touchscreen interface from what you say and also from my exp

I understand your critics against touchscreens and they are justified. Your car doesn’t have a good touchscreen interface from what you say and also from my experience when I drove the corollas from the car pool. However it’s not because many cars are bad that the technology is bad. A touchscreen from an 20 years old Archos MP3 player is extremely bad while an iPad Pro M1 is very good.

bobthepanda 4y ago
Some tools are just not good for the job. At least to me, I haven‘t seen a compelling reasons that touchscreens replacing analog car controls isn‘t a square peg going into a circle hole.
- speedgoose 4y ago
  Well, analog controls are not very good to control a gps map or browse a music collection.
  - formerkrogemp 4y ago
    Why do we need screens on everything when we have a phone? A mobile computing device.
    - speedgoose 4y ago
      The last gen Citroen Ami uses the phone. You can check how it looks.
  - massysett 4y ago
    I find that a round knob with a push-button click, when coupled with a non-touch screen, is far superior to swiping around on a touchscreen to browse a music collection.
- burnished 4y ago
  I'm wondering if part of that is that the companies producing these awful interfaces don't see themselves as 'software' companies, so they put these things in but no one has the time or passion or interest to make it a better experience. Not saying they'd definitely be good if only some one loved 'em, but judging from the car touch screens I've used I believe no one has tried yet.
CSSer 4y ago
I don't think it's really about the touchscreen. I think very few manufacturers, if any, are putting very much thought into this. Apple Carplay, for example, is just a jumbo, uber-simplified version of ipadOS/iOS. In my car it has a great, high resolution 10" touchscreen but a very lackluster experience. It's pretty damning if even Apple, a tech company at heart, is doing it poorly. It doesn't autoplay audio, store memory of what you were doing when last connected, or have any available preferences. "Car" is right there in the name but nowhere to be found in the experience based on everything drivers have expected from vehicles for the better part of a century.

bobthepanda 4y ago

Some tools are just not good for the job. At least to me, I haven‘t seen a compelling reasons that touchscreens replacing analog car controls isn‘t a square peg going into a circle hole.

speedgoose 4y ago
Well, analog controls are not very good to control a gps map or browse a music collection.
- formerkrogemp 4y ago
  Why do we need screens on everything when we have a phone? A mobile computing device.
  - speedgoose 4y ago
    The last gen Citroen Ami uses the phone. You can check how it looks.
- massysett 4y ago
  I find that a round knob with a push-button click, when coupled with a non-touch screen, is far superior to swiping around on a touchscreen to browse a music collection.
burnished 4y ago
I'm wondering if part of that is that the companies producing these awful interfaces don't see themselves as 'software' companies, so they put these things in but no one has the time or passion or interest to make it a better experience. Not saying they'd definitely be good if only some one loved 'em, but judging from the car touch screens I've used I believe no one has tried yet.

CSSer 4y ago

I don't think it's really about the touchscreen. I think very few manufacturers, if any, are putting very much thought into this. Apple Carplay, for example, is just a jumbo, uber-simplified version of ipadOS/iOS. In my car it has a great, high resolution 10" touchscreen but a very lackluster experience. It's pretty damning if even Apple, a tech company at heart, is doing it poorly. It doesn't autoplay audio, store memory of what you were doing when last connected, or have any available preferences. "Car" is right there in the name but nowhere to be found in the experience based on everything drivers have expected from vehicles for the better part of a century.