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Re:Automotive Grade Linux Platform Debuts on the 2018 Toyota... by phkahler on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:57AM (#15292349)
Totally agree. My car radio still has 10 station preset buttons that are very easy to access along with next/prev buttons on the steering wheel. My wife care has a touch screen where only 4 stations are shown at a time and you need to push/touch extra to scroll through the list. None of it has dedicated buttons, so it's a lot of looking and poking around. Not appropriate at all for a driver.

Exceedingly poor UI design.

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Re:Automotive Grade Linux Platform Debuts on the 2018 Toyota... by neogodless on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @07:56AM (#15292701)
The worst I've seen for presets is in GM's implementation. You first have to touch a tiny "up" arrow in the bottom right of the screen, and then you have five touch presets along the bottom. Madness!
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Re:Automotive Grade Linux Platform Debuts on the 2018 Toyota... by virtualized on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @08:38AM (#15293030)
For some reason most people like bad user interfaces by default. They randomly decide on a layout and are immediately too proud to consider anything else.
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