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Can we make the steering wheel a touch screen too? Like a digital wheel you turn with your finger to steer the car. Wouldn't that be just super duper? Couldn't

Can we make the steering wheel a touch screen too? Like a digital wheel you turn with your finger to steer the car. Wouldn't that be just super duper? Couldn't possibly go wrong.

pkulak 4y ago
Except that I open my glove box twice a year and turn the wheel slightly more often than that.
- b112 4y ago
  This makes an interesting point. The less used something is, the more apparent it must be how to use it. If something is used once a year, most users won't know what myriad of menus to follow. Some won't even know it is a menu option, and may hunt all over the car for a hidden release.
  - pkulak 4y ago
    Except that by that logic, the hood release should be a giant red button in the middle of the dash.
    - b112 4y ago
      It is provably different for you, but where I am (Canada), you'll open the hood release at least a half dozen times a year, just for windshield wiper fluid. That said, the hood release has been on the driver side somewhere, under the dash, in every car I own. With a physical release, you can often hunt for a thing, much faster than a dozen submenus.
bipson 4y ago
Ha. The newer VW models (Golf, ID series, etc.) had touch controls on the steering wheels instead of physical buttons. Of course what happened is what you anticipated. Bad customer feedback made them reverse that for future models.
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Izkata 4y ago
There was a prototype in 2011 that, though the wheel was still a wheel, was otherwise even worse than you're imagining: No touch buttons, it used gestures. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43296926 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43296926
- DangitBobby 4y ago
  What you've described and what's described in the article are different. The steering mechanism is still a steering wheel with a steering column, it's just the display (speedometer, odometer, maps) is a touch screen on the wheel instead of behind the dash. Maybe not the best, but not approaching gesture-based steering.
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m463 4y ago
The new tesla model s/x has touch controls on the square steering wheel. no stalks. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+yoke+steering+wheel+controls&t=ffcm&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+yoke+steering+wheel+controls...

Can we make the steering wheel a touch screen too? Like a digital wheel you turn with your finger to steer the car. Wouldn't that be just super duper? Couldn't possibly go wrong.

pkulak 4y ago

Except that I open my glove box twice a year and turn the wheel slightly more often than that.

b112 4y ago
This makes an interesting point. The less used something is, the more apparent it must be how to use it. If something is used once a year, most users won't know what myriad of menus to follow. Some won't even know it is a menu option, and may hunt all over the car for a hidden release.
- pkulak 4y ago
  Except that by that logic, the hood release should be a giant red button in the middle of the dash.
  - b112 4y ago
    It is provably different for you, but where I am (Canada), you'll open the hood release at least a half dozen times a year, just for windshield wiper fluid. That said, the hood release has been on the driver side somewhere, under the dash, in every car I own. With a physical release, you can often hunt for a thing, much faster than a dozen submenus.

bipson 4y ago

Ha. The newer VW models (Golf, ID series, etc.) had touch controls on the steering wheels instead of physical buttons. Of course what happened is what you anticipated. Bad customer feedback made them reverse that for future models.

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Izkata 4y ago

There was a prototype in 2011 that, though the wheel was still a wheel, was otherwise even worse than you're imagining: No touch buttons, it used gestures. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43296926 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43296926

DangitBobby 4y ago
What you've described and what's described in the article are different. The steering mechanism is still a steering wheel with a steering column, it's just the display (speedometer, odometer, maps) is a touch screen on the wheel instead of behind the dash. Maybe not the best, but not approaching gesture-based steering.

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m463 4y ago

The new tesla model s/x has touch controls on the square steering wheel. no stalks. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+yoke+steering+wheel+controls&t=ffcm&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+yoke+steering+wheel+controls...