Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by agumonkey on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:04AM (#20201708)

There should be a company selling ergonomics improvement kits for cars.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by moftz on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:40AM (#20202276)

You can buy little bluetooth remote controls that strap onto your steering wheel. They don't look great and you have to charge them. The charge thing is really annoying now that many cars turn off the power outlets when the car is off. I remember never really having a dead battery in my devices because they could just charge while I was parked either at work or running errands.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by jpindar on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:38AM (#20204028)

In many cars that's easy to fix. Just replace one relay with a jumper. Standard wire terminals fit in the relay sockets so it's not a permanent modification.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by agumonkey on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:53AM (#20204203)

solar powered bluetooth remote

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by baybal2 on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:48AM (#20202343)

The market already exists: car improvement stuff on taobao is sold by tonnes: from the same independent DC-DC, and ECU interfaces to projection huds, and complete dashboard revamps

I still think the bash car dashboard was that of Honda Beat or Suzuki Cara — no dashboard, with just a motorcycle style gauge, and non-driving related controls almost wholely on steering wheel levers.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by dillonmckay on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:09AM (#20202521)

Any good links for projections HUDs?

My cousin had a Pontiac in the late 90s that would project the speed on the windshield.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by baybal2 on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:53AM (#20204206)

【车萝卜 HUD 抬头显示器汽车通用车载多功能显示速度转速时间】https://m.tb.cn/h.efAuVoU?sm=8ee47b 点击链接，再选择浏览器咑閞；或復·制这段描述￥XAN5YfMKXp2￥后到淘寳

【车萝卜2代汽车抬头显示器hud 汽车通用无线导航车载机器人】https://m.tb.cn/h.eU77dAA?sm=d1a047 点击链接，再选择浏览器咑閞；或復·制这段描述￥QASsYfMqMWi￥后到淘寳.

Carrobot is an actual projector, thus there are no questions about focus adjustments.

Other are usually just segment led or el screens, some with collimator, some without

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by coredog64 on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:30AM (#20202700)

IIRC, that dates back to when Hughes was still part of GM. A good HUD uses collimation to project data out in the distance. A crappy HUD throws it up at the same distance as your windshield, forcing you to refocus.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by agumonkey on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:53AM (#20204218)

I bought a stupid semi reflective sheet to put google maps on my smartphone under.. not good enough of course.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by geggam on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:36AM (#20203999)

new bmw 540i has a beautiful hud integrate into the nav system ( rented one in the EU )

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