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Cool? Or Just Clunky? The Fight over Dashboard Touch Screens
- gnicholas 4y agoI don't know why the image at the top shows a backseat display instead of the dashboard display, which is what the headline refers to. Also, it's incredible that there's only one reference in this article to "physical switches" (and no mention of buttons) since this is a major issue related to screens and safety.
- jleyank 4y agoI have found dashboard screens bad on two levels: first, there's no tactile feedback - I have to look at the damned thing to accomplish whatever I want to do. This takes my eyes off the road, which can be sorta creative at times. Second, my cars last 8+ years while my tablets last 3+ years. These things are specialized devices locked into a particular environment. Between their death and obsolescence I'm going to be left with a car that lacks environmental controls long before it fails doing "car" things. Better that the vendors just added a standard bracket for android or Apple tablets. This would make them easy to swap and upgrade, and it's coming down to the software no matter what hardware is used - at least remove a point of failure.