Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by afarrell on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:12AM (#20200888)

Which allows them to have the UI for controlling the car be done by a team without strong communication links with the team designing the rest of the car's UX.

Is that a genuine benefit, or one that shows up more early in planning and who's downsides show up late?

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by TeMPOraL on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:21AM (#20201195)

It's a benefit to the business. There are way more variables of interest to consumers in a car than just UI; few if any will take a crappy touch UI as a dealbreaker (especially if everyone does crappy touch UIs). So it's a pure win for business - the downsides never reach them, they only materialize on the user end, large enough to frustrate people and maybe even cause accidents, but small enough to not cause a purchasing decision change the next time one is in a market for a car.

(I need a term for those cases. Psychological externality?)

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by brokenmachine on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:38AM (#20230466)

Vested disinterest?

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by smdyc1 on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:22AM (#20201514)

That sounds awfully like Boeing's 737-MAX MCAS debacle.

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