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That's wonderful, I hope other car makers realize how distracting and dangerous touch controls are for a driver's ability to focus on driving. My car has physi
by mataug 4y ago
That's wonderful, I hope other car makers realize how distracting and dangerous touch controls are for a driver's ability to focus on driving.
My car has physical controls for most things, and I use CarPlay for music/podcasts and navigation, and even for that purpose it's extremely distracting to use it while driving when compared to the physical interfaces for A/C, seat heaters, mirror adjustment etc. I generally avoid as much of the CarPlay interface as possible while driving.
Voice commands are not the silver bullet solution here, they have a lot of problems such as requiring all passengers to stop talking, and it interrupts the radio, podcast, or music, and generally it's awkward to use voice commands during a phone call. Voice commands are probably fine for some low stakes input like asking to call someone, changing music tracks etc.
- wilg 4y agoHardly fair to compare navigation and selecting music to adjusting temperature and seat heaters. Very different tasks with very different requirements for looking at them.