Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps

Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by ux-app on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:12PM (#12964482)

That's poor design. My wife's new car has physical buttons for all the common functions that you might require to use while in motion:

- Radio on/off

- All radio controls on the wheel

- Heating/cooling, physical knobs

The touchscreen is treated as an optional, secondary interface, as it rightfully should be.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by rat87 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:39AM (#12964784)

Just Radio?

I'm assuming people are listening to podcasts/Pandora/spotify/audiobooks just as frequently , not to mention looking at/listening to directions.

And it doesn't even have a siri/google assistant button? I'd consider that vital.

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Re:Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps by ygra on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:59AM (#12965064)

It would work the same for anything your phone provides if it's connected via Bluetooth. There's likely also a way to get to Siri like on pretty much all Bluetooth headsets.

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