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> Tablets are simply not designed for use in moving vehicles. You need a physical button, so you can reach for it even without taking your eyes off the road and
by qwertox 4y ago
> Tablets are simply not designed for use in moving vehicles. You need a physical button, so you can reach for it even without taking your eyes off the road and feel it.
This is generally an issue. I really don't understand how car manufacturers believe that a touchscreen is a good interface in a car where you often need to look at the road and touch the controls in order to feel at which button or knob you are.
I'd rather have high quality resistive touchscreens where the surface can be touched but a good degree of pressure needs to be applied in order to execute a command. Ideally it would have some sort of vibration feedback when I cross a boundary between buttons.
- quonn 4y agoIt‘s fine in practice because most things are automatic or only needed when parked and also because the lane keeping and adaptive cruise control aka Autopilot makes a very brief distraction less of a problem in most situations. There are with two exceptions: - Opening the glove box. This should be possible by pressing the box, it could visually look the same. Instead it requires drilling into a touchscreen menu. - Music pause/like/seek. The buttons are too small to easily hit them while driving.
- Dah00n 4y agoMoving the air vents around being 3 menus deep seems like a no go but some designer still made it.
- flutas 4y ago> Moving the air vents around being 3 menus deep seems like a no go but some designer still made it. What model is that on? M3/Y at least you literally just swipe up from the bottom and there's your entire cars hvac controls, including air vents.