• Re: Physical buttons in vehicles

    From Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jun 2 16:20:30 2023
    Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Fri Jun 02 2023 07:03 am

    Digital Man wrote to paulie420 <=-


    One of those volume knobs popped off on a co-worker's car (I think it as a Ford?) and it wasn't completely passive - the know was just transferring to the knob's rotation as finger swipes on the touch screen. Pretty clever solution, I thought. --

    Until you replace the knob, I suppose you could stick your pinky finger
    in the hole and turn...

    That's the thing: there was no hole. You could just touch the screen (where the knob used to be) and rotate right or left and get the same effect.
    --
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jun 2 19:23:09 2023
    Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Jun 02 2023 07:02 am

    I'm curious how they'd change the layout of some of these touch
    panels? In some cars I've seen lately, it's just a flat
    touch-sensitive area in a fixed place where a physical button/knob
    would be. For instance:

    On a lot of the third-party head units, they're running Android. it's
    just a home screen app you're looking at.

    It's not just the radio head unit, but in other places around the dashboard, as well as steering wheel controls for the radio, etc., they're using flat touch-sensitive surfaces in place of physical buttons & switches. For example:

    https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Nissan-Ariya-1024x555.jpg

    https://tinyurl.com/2s3m638k

    https://shorturl.at/BDW59

    https://tinyurl.com/yc8xhmbe

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