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I bet implementing the glove box control in this way simplifies the tooling/assembly somehow.
by JoeyBananas 4y ago
I bet implementing the glove box control in this way simplifies the tooling/assembly somehow.
- jeffybefffy519 4y agoYep this, overall makes the car cheaper to make.
- systemvoltage 4y agoNow extend this reasoning to see why everything has become touch screen. It will all make sense. My oven has touch buttons. No idea if I pressed it or not because it doesn’t give feedback for a second or two. Good automotive quality switches and encoders are expensive. And they don’t make them anymore because market dumped them. See the dwindling alps catalog.
- Gibbon1 4y agoI got a new washer. You have to push a touch button for four seconds to wake it up. Then wait a couple of seconds for the controller to boot and show the touch screen. Then you select what wash mode you want by pressing the touch screen for two seconds for each selection.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIt truly is Halloween
- devmor 4y agoThere is no world where wiring, relays and motorized latches are cheaper than a button latch.
- userbinator 4y agoThis. It's a very different situations from touch screens being cheaper than physical controls, since in this case the latch is already necessary.
- JoeyBananas 4y agoIts possible. Injection molding is cheaper when the part has less precise features.