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Re:The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Di... by anoncake on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:17PM (#20191304)
> without adding a motor to physically move the knob/switch (which would be ridiculous).

AFAIK this is actually done in airplane cockpits. It may be overly expensive, but it isn't ridiculous.

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Re:The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Di... by userbinator on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:55PM (#20191479)
A more mundane application of this is found in a lot of older stereo systems, where e.g. the volume buttons on the remote control cause a motor to turn the physical volume knob on the unit itself.
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Re:The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Di... by closeparen on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:19PM (#20192218)
Digital sound and lighting control surfaces too. Gets you multiple logical layers from the same encoders.
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