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Is it just me that wants an EV with just ‘dumb’ switches on the dash? I find car companies overstretch with trying to make fancy touchscreens etc. Plus in car
by 35mm 4y ago
Is it just me that wants an EV with just ‘dumb’ switches on the dash?
I find car companies overstretch with trying to make fancy touchscreens etc.
Plus in car computers go out of date much quicker than motors and batteries.
Just give me some robust physical switches for the important stuff, and an empty space to put my phone / tablet.
That also has the benefit of being able to keep looking out the windscreen while driving, if I need to turn the air on on, rather than opening a ‘climate control’ menu on some creatively designed touch screen.
- Sponge5 4y agoExactly, I've been changing my consumer habits towards products that either don't need maintenance at all (GoRuck) or are optimized for ease of maintenance (Fairphone). Sadly haven't found an EV (or a modern IC engine car) that matches these criteria. All the systems and components are sitting on a CAN bus anyway, in the base configuration you can just control the CAN master with analog switches like in the old days.. You can make a paid mobile app for the same controls but digital (and allow more fine-tuning). This eliminates the display from the car though, so I guess a parking camera is a no-go. All you need hardware-wise on the car at that point would be a CAN Master device with bluetooth, which is a stupid ESP32.