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Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
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- jleyank 1y agoThey're quite difficult to use without looking at them, and I've got better things to look at while driving. Better buttons that don't move and have "presence" than I can feel without looking.
- dazc 1y agoPhysical volume adjustment buttons on the steering wheel are about the only control I feel comfortable using whilst the car is moving. Anything more complex with a touch-screen interface is an accident waiting to happen.
- amluto 1y agoWhat about physical buttons off the wheel? A well-designed car might have quite a few: window controls, sound system volume knob, temperature up-down, etc. In my first car, I could operate the windows, climate control and sound system without taking my eyes off the road at all, although I had to glance briefly at the (fixed) display to see what radio station I was tuned to if it wasn’t obvious.
- dazc 1y agoWell, yes, there is the obvious stuff although I could say opening windows is not entirely simple unless I'm fully opening or closing. Old-school radios were a lot more user-friendly with preset station buttons and a tactile volume control that actually felt like it was connected to something.
- giantrobot 1y ago> What about physical buttons off the wheel? A well-designed car might have quite a few: window controls, sound system volume knob, temperature up-down, etc. Those controls are typically on some surface of the car your hand is braced on. They're also very simple physical controls with a good amount of tactile feedback. It's hard to fuck up a simple push button window control or AC dial. Even on a bumpy road you'd be hard pressed to have trouble with such controls.
- doug_durham 1y agoI have two cars with two different button layouts. I have to look at the physical buttons to use them. It's no different for me than a screen.
- non_aligned 1y agoI would be surprised if that's the case. For commonly-used functions, you quickly learn knob shapes and their general locations. I'm sure you can adjust volume without looking in both cars. With touchscreens, it's not just that you lose the tactile component, but all these interfaces are modal, with buttons that disappear or move around depending on the screen you're on. Oh, you're on the radio screen? There's no way to adjust seat heating from here... or if there is one, it's in a different place than on the AC screen.
- doug_durham 1y agoI'm not arguing the physical buttons "can" be used to have muscle memory so you can use them without looking. What I'm saying is that it isn't a guarantee. The good thing about CarPlay is that the screen interface is the same regardless of the car I'm driving. I get an instinctual level of interaction.
- Swenrekcah 1y agoI won’t argue with your lived experience but this would make you an extreme outlier. About 20 years ago, every teenager in the world who had a mobile phone was able to select a contact from their phonebook and type an entire message and send, in class with their phone in their pocket. This is possible because of physical buttons and a deterministic user interface. The same applies to cars and other control interfaces.
- doug_durham 1y agoAs I said I have two cars from two manufacturers. They have wildly different button layouts. Your example is a teen ager with a "single phone". In my case I have to resist the urge to read the tiny text on the physical button to know what I need to do. I avoid spending enough time in my car to learn the physical layout.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoUnequivocally, yes. They are absolutely dangerous. Anything that takes attention away from driving increases danger. Are they more dangerous than older interfaces? My feeling is overwhelmingly yes, but I would be willing to see a study or hear arguments that some touchscreens are an improvement. A touch interface is fine (not great) as long as it never changes. As soon as you have to search for a control or menu you are dividing your attention away from driving.
- giantrobot 1y agoEven a fixed touch UI is dangerous. You can't brace your hand easily to hit a touchscreen and your hand will bounce around while driving. Hitting the wrong button is as or more distracting than having to search for a control. Then there's the shitty UIs with small buttons that are hard to hit accurately even at a dead stop. It seems like every touch screen UI takes all the sins of modern crappy web design and turns it all to 11. They're just terrible UX for the inside of a vehicle you're driving.
- cramcgrab 1y agoBased on the data, no https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
- dommer 1y agoThe report seems focused more on crash rates, accident involvement, rates with Autopilot / Full Self-Driving vs without, and active/passive safety systems. Has zero insight into touchscreen and their safety issues. Also from the car manufacturer not independent and isn’t without bias.
- 4ndrewl 1y agoThat data doesn't seem to be talking about the same thing - ie touchscreens vs physical controls.
- dh2022 1y agoI do not trust anything coming out of Tesla. If you have a third party report that would be more credible (i.e. a report not made by car companies or their customers).
- nine_k 1y agoUn-paywalled: https://archive.is/u1OqX https://archive.is/u1OqX In short: various studies show that touchscreens draw attention of the driver for longer, so they are more dangerous at speed. European agencies noticed and started requiring physical dedicated switches for certain most important functions to get a full safety rating. Car makers also gradually revert to physical switches, and also push voice control for certain functions.
- ghaff 1y agoVoice control is sufficiently finicky that I wouldn’t want to rely on it but it can help for things like navigation changes.
- macrolime 1y agoVoice control is much much much worse than touch screens. You have to try 10-20 times to spell out a command before it maybe does want you want, and that is if you're incredibly lucky
- nine_k 1y agoThat's weird. I never ever had trouble with voice menus on the phone, and I bet that phone lines are worse than what you can have in a car, and the processing resources spent on recognition should not be large.
- aednichols 1y agoMileage varies a lot on this one. I have an Android Automotive car (not to be confused with Android Auto) and “Hey Google” is basically flawless for changing car settings while driving.
- crazygringo 1y ago> An analysis published in 2020 by the Transport Research Laboratory, a British organisation, found that touchscreens impaired a driver’s reaction time more than driving over the legal alcohol limit. The question isn't whether they're dangerous, anymore. The question is, when is safety legislation going to be passed that prevents them from being used for any routine adjustments while driving. I.e. windshield wipers, AC, change volume, skip to next track, etc. Like it's fine if you still use them to input a GPS destination, change long-term car settings, connect a Bluetooth device, etc. But we need to separate out the actions routinely used during driving and legislate physical controls. Why is there not legislation for this already?
- JustExAWS 1y agoThe cars I have had don’t let you change BT settings or many other settings and Apple Maps at least doesn’t let you type in an address while you’re driving from the display I don’t think. I’ve done it from my phone as a passenger.
- LoganDark 1y agoIt's an Apple thing to limit keyboard access when the car is moving. Android Auto doesn't have it.
- thanhhaimai 1y agoAndroid Auto also doesn't let you type while driving. Source: I was the one who wrote the system UI and Keyboard integration. It's still there last time I checked.
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- Zanni 1y agoDepends enormously on the implementation and use case. My daily driver is a Tesla Model 3, which has a big, beautiful touch screen. But I almost never touch it while I'm driving. Anything I need to control can be handled by voice command ("set temp to 70") or the scroll wheels in the steering wheel. (The one irritating exception is the windshield wipers.)
- JustExAWS 1y agoI absolutely hate the Tesla screen and the entire infotainment system. I refuse to buy any car without CarPlay support.
- fiddlerwoaroof 1y agoI’ve rented cars with CarPlay and the Tesla solution is a lot nicer imo.
- JustExAWS 1y agoThe major problem is that you’re stuck with whatever bad apps that Tesla decides to give you instead of using the apps on your phone. For instance my favorite podcast app is Overcast, there is a CarPlay support for it. I can also use Google Maps or Apple Maps.
- dpkirchner 1y agoAgreed. I've never once said "this car's software is great and I hope I can use it for a decade".
- dfxm12 1y agoI was annoyed that to get the safety features on the car I wanted, I had to get a configuration with a touchscreen (ironic, I know). However, once I took it for a test drive, I was relieved to find that almost every button I want to press while driving can be found on the steering wheel without looking. Only the air con controls are left out.
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- ncr100 1y agoTouchscreens are like "secret handshakes": When driving I may need to fine-tune a setting in a range, OR seek a specific touch- or switch-point amongst a field of identically sized levers or buttons. My solution is to seek an anchor point with my hand while other fingers do the work. I like hanging my hand on physical knob controls, e.g. for volume, in a non-input direction and without motivating force to change the underlying value. The problem with anchoring is that my arms jiggle like bouncy bridges, when driving over any kind of bump. This external force disrupts my solution. It can be somewhat solved by tighter grip on the knob or non-input region of the control. Additional problems come from having touch-screens - they create an extra physical problem of reducing the anchor-safe areas on the dashboard. And, I workaround touch-screen's problem of "need to anchor" vs "can't touch without committing to change" by tenting my hand on dead-zones of the screen, or around the bezel or surrounding non-input surface. So touchscreens, for me, add complexity to using the vehicle as a tool to accomplish the deed. Like "secret handshakes" are to greeting.
- JustExAWS 1y agoAnd with Apple’s brain dead idea to project interactive widgets that were designed for the iPhone onto CarPlay, it’s gotten less safe. No matter what you think about Apple’s “wall garden” for safety reasons Apple use to be very strict about the interface for CarPlay apps and responsible app developers were thoughtful about their CarPlay interface. Now developers widgets will end up on CarPlay even when they didn’t intend it.
- theropost 1y agoInteresting point about touchscreens..I think it highlights a bigger issue with “safety” features sometimes backfiring. For example, that relentless beeping when the passenger seat detects weight but it’s just a backpack or groceries. I wonder how many drivers have been more distracted trying to silence the alarm than they would’ve been just ignoring the bag in the first place. Feels like we’ve traded one kind of risk for another. Do they really research this, or is it more of a gimmmic
- SilverElfin 1y agoDial based navigation for the screen is best. You can use it by muscle memory on cars that have it. While we’re at it let’s also get rid of auto start stop, which is frustrating, saves little, and harms long term durability.
- ghaff 1y agoI can’t believe you can’t permanently disable auto start stop among all the myriad settings on my Honda. Fortunately there’s a very convenient button I’ve learned to reflexively hit after I start the car.
- SilverElfin 1y agoThe law prevents you from selling vehicles with a permanent disable feature. Some cars have after market workarounds but on most of them you have to turn it off manually each time you start the car. The worst are cars that put that switch deep in some menu.
- ghaff 1y agoSo I gathered. After I got the car I assumed there had be be a setting buried deep in the menus somewhere but instead saw some forum discussions and the aftermarket disablers. Fortunately my Honda makes it very easy to just reflexively turn off when I start my car.
- turkishdelight 1y agoIt isn't just the touch aspect, but also the "ruin your night vision" aspect. Most pedestrians don't carry lights around, or even wear light-colored clothing at night.
- Zanni 1y agoTesla screens switch to dark mode at night.
- qball 1y agoAll screens (that aren't OLED ones, which aren't generally suitable for cars due to their shorter lifespan) still glow when displaying black. So it's still a glowing thing in your field of vision. Of course, you're already going to be flash-blinded by retards leaving their LED high-beams on as they pass you, so maybe none of this matters.
- nathan_compton 1y agoDangerous, probably, fucking stupid, definitely.
- dark__paladin 1y agoI'll save you the read: yes
- bilsbie 1y agoYou’d tbink would at least be some design guides for the UI to be bigger and more forgiving. Why make people try to hit tiny targets while they’re driving? Every button could be a square inch.
- qball 1y agoGarbage software in automotive is guaranteed because it's a cost center. Why bother hiring the best when good enough will do? It's not like the customer has any choice, right? The only company that doesn't treat it like this is Tesla (and to a point Rivian), but they're software companies that just happen to produce cars rather than the other way around.
- radonic 1y agoI agree that touchscreens in cars are dangerous. But the real problem is that complex actions that can't be done quickly by feel and familiarity are more distracting, so replacing them with difficult to use combinations of buttons and lights would be no better. I suspect some safety measures integrated into phones and car interfaces to prevent certain actions also could cause frustration and distraction. But these things may be only a temporary problem. Self-driving vehicles may soon become the norm.
- annexrichmond 1y agoI find using CarPlay more dangerous than my phone. At least with my phone I’m using a familiar interface and I can use at any angle. With CarPlay my panel is awkwardly positioned, the UI is confusing, and I have to pay far more attention to what I’m doing. I’m not suggesting at all it’s ok to use your phone while driving, and is unlawful for a good reason. Yet CarPlay, a dumbed down phone bolted to your dash, is totally fine, despite being no more safe IMO
- CharlesW 1y agoOne point in the "pro" column is that every CarPlay implementation supports voice control, which is safer than taking your hands off the wheel even for physical controls.
- oblio 1y agoDoes that work well, and does it work well in every language where CarPlay & co are sold?
- CharlesW 1y agoIn my experience (3 years using CarPlay in English, in a Chevy Bolt), it does work well for the kinds of things I wanted to do while driving, which were generally related to navigation, music, and podcasts.
- gambiting 1y agoIn my experience(English as a second language) it's actualy useless and recognizes maybe 30% of what I say. In my native tongue it's even worse than that, but that's a moot point as if I try to mix and say "[in my native tongue] navigate to [in English]Queen Victoria's Hospital" it will just never work. That combination has actual 0% success rate but it's unavoidable living in the UK. As does trying to call anyone with a non-English name, trying to do say "call Jędrzej Kazimierzowski" just leads to either it dialing someone completely unrelated or just saying "Sorry, I don't recognize that".
- zoklet-enjoyer 1y agoOf course they are. I don't know why they were ever allowed
- bilsbie 1y agoSomething like Tesla could improve on this by having a shortcuts type system the user could set up. For example on nice days I want to vent the outside air into the car instead of ac or heat and it’s a good five+ buttons to click.
- Maro 1y agoAnybody who has used a touchscreen and spent an extra moment fiddling on the screen, and then had to adjust the steering knows that touchscreens are dangerous. In my cars touchscreens are only for Android Auto, which is managable, all the core driving stuff is traditional knobs and buttons. I'd never buy a fully touchscreen car like a Tesla. Sitting in them for Uber drives is more than enough for me..
- llboston 1y agoTraditional buttons and knobs are not the solution. Voice control with local LLM will be the future.
- amatecha 1y agoThat sounds terrible. I want less computers in my car, not more!
- phito 1y agoPlease no, I hate using any voice control, even if it works well. Sometimes, especially when I am alone, I do not want to speak.
- EatFlamingDeath 1y agoThanks stranger, for speaking up for all of us that hate voice control. Sometimes I just want quiet.
- mylifeandtimes 1y agoThat's going to work great when you are driving home in the rain from a dentist visit and cannot get it to understand when you say "turn on windshield wipers".
- gwbas1c 1y agoThe problem with voice control is that it requires you to know (or guess) a lot about the thing you're trying to control. When it malfunctions, it takes more, not less, attention than a touchscreen. I've driven Teslas for seven years, and I still have no ^%$#^ing idea what I can and can't do with voice control.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoVoice control barely works. 50 = 15.
- rsync 1y agoI think that touchscreens are dangerous in cars but I’m open-minded and can imagine implementations that wouldn’t be unsafe… What I am absolutely convinced of is that touchscreens are cheap and tacky. The current trend of so-called “luxury” cars with wrapping screens all the way around the passenger is terrible. A high end, or luxury, car should have physical controls and physical dials/gauges. I’m reminded of a quote I heard describing the then new Bentley SUV: “what a poor person thinks a rich person’s car looks like”.
- RandomBacon 1y ago> so-called “luxury” cars with wrapping screens all the way around the passenger is terrible. I'm thinking about the upcoming Ramcharger, but one drawback is the stupid screen in front of the front passenger seat. I'd rather have a leather dash.
- hinkley 1y agoPart of the reason I’ve held onto my Jetta for far too long is that is has about 2 dozen physical buttons on the dash, and almost half of them are wired to the entertainment system. Including a handful on the steering wheel. Every time I eyeball an electric vehicle it’s a clown car from a UX perspective and I have people who would be pretty upset if I died trying to change the song on my stereo.
- Group_B 1y agoAgree, I do think Mazda gets it right though. No touch screen for most models. Screen is controlled with a knob. It’s a tiny bit clunky, but a million times better than all the touchscreen bs.
- hyperrail 1y agoConsumer Reports' reviews of newer Mazdas always stress the infotainment system as a big negative, to the point that I would seriously reconsider them as a result. Apparently it's a case of "right idea, wrong execution." The deep menu hierarchies and small text make the jog wheel knob controls even more awkward (in CR's view) than a decent touch-screen system plus a few buttons. [1] Maybe that's one reason that BMW has just abandoned their Mazda-like wheel controller [2], despite having had it for years before Mazda. (Interestingly CR says the latest Mazdas do have a touchscreen, but touches are allowed when the car is moving only for CarPlay/Android Auto.) [1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/mazda/cx-50-hybrid/2025/road-test-report/ https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/mazda/cx-50-hybrid/2025... - "the CX-50's infotainment system is frustrating and distracting to use while driving. [...] the text- and list-based menu structure forces drivers to glance away from the road for too long. Even simple radio tasks require multiple taps and twists of the rotary controller knob" [2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63576709/bmw-kills-idrive-knob/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63576709/bmw-kills-idrive...
- saddat 1y agoA Tesla without head up display is just ridicules. No speedometer than on center display
- chrisldgk 1y agoAnecdotal evidence, but I’ve been driven into twice over the course of the last two weeks after driving every day for ten years and never having had a crash. Whether it’s touch screens mounted in the car or people being on their phone, something has to be done about people being distracted while driving. I’m in Germany and using your phone while driving can lead to your license being revoked - the problem is that it’s not really enforced at all in my experience. Maybe it should be. Rant over, I’m just honestly pissed about my car being wrecked TWICE and me being paranoid looking in the rear view mirror every time I’m stood still because people apparently can’t register a car standing at a signal.
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoI mean I doubt the problem went from 0 to 100 in the last few months, so I’m just not sure your anecdote says much about the amount of distracted driving, just bad luck.
- chrisldgk 1y agoYeah no, I agree. Still though, I do think people being distracted while driving is a big problem.
- WaitWaitWha 1y agoanecdotal experience: I rent cars quite often and most of them are now touch screen to some extent. Touchscreens are extremely distracting for me. I have to look at the screen to make sure I am touching it at the right spot. Often I have to select the "page" the necessary buttons is on, even for very simple things like adjusting the temperature or turning the fan up or down. In some cars this takes several touches. Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are just as bad. for some reason the interface is inconsistent enough across vehicles that requires me to look at the screen. I no longer connect my phones to the vehicle. This of course creates another problem. Most "smart" cars no longer have radios; the expectation is that a paired phone will stream the audio. On pre-"smart" vehicles, I could turn on and off the radio, select stations, without looking even in unfamiliar vehicles after a few initial glances. Not so with "smart" cars. Either I will have to fiddle with the phone, or with the "touch" screen, which triggers the multiple taps to find the place where the "radio"/audio is located. Some big auto manufacturers plan to drop Android Auto and Apple CarPlay because they want that sweet, sweet personal data juices flowing to them. I have also noticed that some of my senior friends struggle reading the screen, be it glare or text site, or icons that they do not understand. I think voice recognition is a viable path for people who can speak clearly (my voice sounds like a '46 Cletrac Crawler on full power, should see the AI driven transcription!)
- ponector 1y agoReally curious which car has no FM radio as pretty much every model has it as default option.
- atoav 1y agoOr phrased in a different way: "Is an interface that forces drivers to look away from the road dangerous?" To which the honest and obvious answer is that it is hard to imagine it wouldn't. My old 90s VW Polo could be operated completely blindly after driving it 10 times, any new car is much harder to operate blindly.
- qmr 1y agoWell duh. https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperfor...
- hk1337 1y agoSimple answer is an unequivocal yes but people are also dangerous. If it’s not a touchscreen, it will be something else.
- Havoc 1y agoIt means taking eyes off road while navigating a possibly multi-level menu. Contrast that with old school radios that had physically distinct feeling buttons (and physically elevated dots - like on the f and j key on keyboards) and yeah absolutely. I'd be much more interested in how an HUD and say voice control compares. I could see that being very competitive safety wise
- ajsnigrutin 1y agoTouchscreens are great! You can put intuitive UIs on them, so if you need to reset the TPMS setting, change the backlight color, set "coming home" light duration, cabin illumination delay, etc., it's much easier to do so on a touchscreen than to fiddle with a menu in a single line, or even worse, hold some weird key combination when powering on the car. But for basic radio controls, AC control, windows, etc., physical buttons are the way to go!
- aftbit 1y agoThey should be replaced with multi-function displays like aircraft. Keep the contextual screen, just require a handful of physical controls along the side and bottom of the display. This allows people to interact with them without taking their eyes and attention off the road.
- The_President 1y agoThe old school Supra/Saab wraparound cockpit style driver seat was an operator's favorite.
- ViscountPenguin 1y agoAnecdotally, looking through the car windows of the miriad of lunatic drivers who've sped through zebra crossings without stopping at my local crossing, they're much more likely to be fiddling with their car screen than average.
- NoNameHaveI 1y agoI own an older Lexus RX350, which I upgraded the stereo head unit from an outdated cassette/CD player to an Alpine unit with Android Auto/Apple Car Play. While it certainly packs more features, needing to look down to do things like frequency search is inherently dangerous because it takes my eyes off the road. Compounding the matter is if I hit a bump, and it makes my finger bounce and I end up hitting the wrong button and spending MORE time looking at the screen to make a correction. I do my best to use voice recognition while in motion, but sometimes it just doesn't work. For routine items like fan, temperature, volume, etc, hard buttons make sense. But things like updating maps are much harder to do via hard buttons.
- rbalicki 1y agoMany years ago, I saw a video of a touchscreen input demo where the touchscreen could tell how many fingers you were placed on the screen, i.e. track each finger independently. So, for example, you might imagine that two finger scrolling up/down controls the volume, three fingers controls the AC strength, etc. This also gave you another two degrees of freedom: expansion vs contraction and rotation. So, you might start with three fingers close together and expand out. Or you might rotate three fingers clockwise to proceed to the next track. This gives you enough degrees of freedom to never need to look at the screen for routine actions! Sadly, I haven't seen anything about it since then. Large changes like this to UX are going to be inherently hard to introduce into cars, but alas, feels like a missed opportunity.
- stavros 1y agoAll (multitouch) touchscreens support this. For example, my BYD Seal supports a three-finger swipe, up/down for temperature and left/right for fan speed. The main problem with this is that people don't tend to remember complicated, unintuitive gestures like expanding/contracting/rotating/etc.
- bethekidyouwant 1y agoI’ve been in cars with really dumb selector wheels in the centre console and I imagine they can be just as distracting.
- aeternum 1y agoHuman driving is the thing that is dangerous and will soon be banned. Enjoy it while it lasts.
- wslh 1y agoWhat happens when water drops into these touchscreens? Do they have the same issues mobile phones have?
- znpy 1y agoTouchscreen are incredibly dangerous in car. I have clear memory of operating controls in my car without looking at them (meaning: i could keep my eyes on the road) because of muscle memory and tactile feedback. Basically: if i hit the button row that controls the radio i can recognize it using my fingers. I know the third button is "next station". I remember the dial at the left of that button rows is for volume. I don't need to look. I can keep my eyes on the road. But with touch screens? Everything goes away. Not only i cannot employ any kind of memory anymore, i also might do things i don't want to do, because the control changes (different UIs) and i cannot be sure in what UI the touch screen currently is without looking at it (and taking my eyes off the road). It's crazy that modern cars have 10/13/14 inches display right at the driver side.
- diebeforei485 1y agoVoice control is the safest, and Tesla's voice control is good.
- epgui 1y agoYes.
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- mazone 1y agoThe most dangerous about the touch screen in my car is a warning message that come up first when the entertainment system boots, warning about using the screen while driving that i need to accept.
- doright 1y agoTouchscreens on older cars used to disable themselves if the car was in motion. I think how the safety of in-car controls is perceived has changed since then.
- aidenn0 1y agoI read somewhere a statistic that using CarPlay increased reaction times more than texting, which is a bit terrifying.
- danans 1y agoI suspect that many of the accidents that happen with touchscreens are frontal collisions with slowed down cars when the driver is distracted with the touchscreen. A few regulations that might help with this: All cars with touchscreens need to have automatic forward collision detection and emergency braking, and if it's not enabled, the touch screen should have very limited functionality. No scrolling music, no sending texts, etc. A car with forward collision detection should show a clear warning a few seconds before it triggers the brakes, and indicate the warning on the screen. Chevy is already doing this by showing a "seconds before collision" indicator on the display in front of the driver. They should make it even louder (visually) and disable the touchscreen if it falls below 2 seconds.
- theturtle 1y agoShort answer: yeah.
- ok123456 1y agoLex Fridman lied. People Died.
- user1999919 1y agocars statistically ARE DANGEROUS. The public has just been brainwashed into believing this yearly sacrifice is okay.
- The_President 1y agoAs King, I declare we designate a large volcano for the Car Gods for which from here forward, all destroyed cars must be shipped to, and sacrificed.
- danielodievich 1y agoDriving a 2002 Mini here with fully analog controls everywhere. I don't need to look at anything and I love it. Since I hardly drive anywhere this should last me a while. Fun thing is that this car has volume and radio channel change buttons on the BACK of the steering wheel so you can do change things with just a flip of a finger without moving anywhere. I told my little kids it had voice recognition to change volume and radio but it could only understand russian. They only figured that out once they started to try to drive it. They still laugh about it.
- KevinMS 1y agoAnd don't replace them with fake buttons that are also distracting. Buttons and knobs need to be designed so you can quickly glance to target them, but from then on, you can feel or hear how you are interacting with them.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 1y agoYou shouldn't even have to glance. Just feel around.
- 0manrho 1y agoYes, and terrible UX to boot.
- lunias 1y agoTouchscreens are only useful in instances where I don't want to carry around peripherals; i.e. mobile devices. If it's installed in the dash of a car, it's not mobile and there is a better way to interface w/ it.
- seanssel 1y agoI didn’t want any touchscreens in my car when moving on from my ‘01 Integra (RIP). Got a 2021 Mazda3, and I think the layout is fantastic with the wheel and physical buttons. It also comes in manual :)