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Ever had a (lightly) sleeping baby in the car? Glad it finally got to sleep after hours worth of crying? Maybe, just maybe, I don't want to risk asking a voice

Ever had a (lightly) sleeping baby in the car? Glad it finally got to sleep after hours worth of crying? Maybe, just maybe, I don't want to risk asking a voice assistant to turn up or down the AC. Scenario also works for sleeping co-driver. Buttons are fine. Even though I prefer driving EVs, the reliance on touchscreen/ voice for everything is just annoying. At least for the most common functions like volume control, AC and stuff.

beretguy 2y ago
This is just the tip of the iceberg example.
Gud 2y ago
Yea, it’s a big disadvantage for EVs that they are being sold with crappy touchscreen instead of buttons and dials, and even the charging is a worse experience than filling gas because of ridiculous apps that barely works! I was driving a Polestar in the UK, fantastic car, but many chargers wouldn’t work because of my non-UK debit cards… tried many of them, for months.
drcongo 2y ago
Now imagine being the designated driver on a night out and all your drunk friends shouting commands at the car while you're trying to drive. "Rivian, turn the headlights off!".
- throwoutway 2y ago
  Kids: "roll all the windows down, turn on hazards, and clean the windows!"
freefaler 2y ago
People prefer physical buttons, because primates evolved in the physical world with hardware to use other hardware for a reason :) The receptors in our hardware can identify a hardware button without looking... especially while driving a 2 ton object trying not to hit anyone. Getting his logic to the extreme, we won't have computer keyboards, just a glass slabs with picture of buttons. Ohh... shit, the war is lost, my phone is exactly that. In 5 years only super premium computer keyboards will have hardware keys I reckon. For what I've read the problem aren't the buttons, but the cabling they really hate.

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Ever had a (lightly) sleeping baby in the car? Glad it finally got to sleep after hours worth of crying? Maybe, just maybe, I don't want to risk asking a voice

by mnkypete 2y ago

beretguy 2y ago
This is just the tip of the iceberg example.
Gud 2y ago
Yea, it’s a big disadvantage for EVs that they are being sold with crappy touchscreen instead of buttons and dials, and even the charging is a worse experience than filling gas because of ridiculous apps that barely works! I was driving a Polestar in the UK, fantastic car, but many chargers wouldn’t work because of my non-UK debit cards… tried many of them, for months.
drcongo 2y ago
Now imagine being the designated driver on a night out and all your drunk friends shouting commands at the car while you're trying to drive. "Rivian, turn the headlights off!".
- throwoutway 2y ago
  Kids: "roll all the windows down, turn on hazards, and clean the windows!"
freefaler 2y ago
People prefer physical buttons, because primates evolved in the physical world with hardware to use other hardware for a reason :) The receptors in our hardware can identify a hardware button without looking... especially while driving a 2 ton object trying not to hit anyone. Getting his logic to the extreme, we won't have computer keyboards, just a glass slabs with picture of buttons. Ohh... shit, the war is lost, my phone is exactly that. In 5 years only super premium computer keyboards will have hardware keys I reckon. For what I've read the problem aren't the buttons, but the cabling they really hate.