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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by xvector on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:39AM (#20201588)
Elon Musk's fascination with touchscreens is absurd and dangerous.

Even in the future world where everything is autonomous, knobs and buttons will always be needed for mission-critical interactions, whether it be driving in dangerous conditions or having to perform emergency maneuvers on your "autonomous" aircraft.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by throw0101a on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:02AM (#20202459)
> on your "autonomous" aircraft.

It seems that the FAA (and Garmin) does not agree with you:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8o0Nk8E0S4 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnuRFAAKdfg

I like Dynon's systems a bit more, as they have a few physical buttons to allow one to go to certain top-level / important parts of the menu system in a jiffy:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjADTgwCtUU

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