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Not just VW. Others including Subaru having touchscreens that have lag between press and response. Most cars I've looked at use an infotainment screen instead
by strict9 4y ago
Not just VW. Others including Subaru having touchscreens that have lag between press and response.
Most cars I've looked at use an infotainment screen instead of push buttons for functions like climate control. This is why I'm still driving my 2014 vehicle.
It's unacceptable to have buggy and slow software controlling essential parts of the interior of a car.
Auto makers should throw out touchscreens and return to buttons.
- hulitu 4y agoButtons are expensive.
- avmich 4y agoNot too much.
- fsociety 4y agoSpecifically wiring harnesses and installing them are expensive. Touchscreens require less wires, since less buttons means less wires, which saves amount of money/time, and % chance of defect, per car.
- Thetawaves 4y agoWhat? There need not be wires for each individual button... they could all be mounted on a single PCB that dumps activity to a CAN bus.
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoWho cares. It doesn’t matter. Touchscreens in cars suck.
- hulitu 4y agoA button means: a pin in a microcontroller or in a multiplexer, a pin on the connector, enbironmental tests (water splash), ESD tests, etc. All those cost development money.
- avmich 4y agoIn brief, a touchscreen is meaningless and doesn't work until you show something on it. When you show something, that something will cost development money.
- buggy6257 4y agoJust to put an anecdatum -- I have a 2020 Subaru Forester, and it has physical buttons for everything BUT infotainment. Media etc is in a touchscreen, but climate controls, wipers, etc -- all are still physical buttons.