Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by joking on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:41AM (#20202809)

>CarPlay is amazingly good, and only really works well with a touchscreen. >At this point, it would be very hard for me to buy a car that didn't have CarPlay integration with a touchscreen. I've seen implementations without touch, and they're much, much less useful.

Well, maybe the solution is to make apple carplay and android auto to work well with a dpad and buttons configuration, those interfaces have been working perfectly for videoconsoles and tvs, and a car system is more similar to that than to a phone.

Actually the system works well, and it's designed for that, And as the test confirm, using the touchscreen while driving is dangerous. The same that you can't use a video app while driving, the touchscreen should be disables while the car is moving.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by ihuman on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:45AM (#20203491)

> those interfaces have been working perfectly for videoconsoles and tvs

Is this a joke? I find navigating my TV's menus with a remote to be the most infuriating part of using a TV.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by Mtinie on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:59AM (#20203625)

Personally I don’t mind using a remote to navigate menus; dedicated, physical buttons can in many cases make things easier. What I absolutely despise, however, is the latency between said button presses and the actual acknowledgment on-screen.

In my experience, the latency on cable TV boxes, Smart TVs, and in-flight entertainment systems has progressively gotten worse, not better over the years.

This latency, when coupled with a car’s touch screen is even worse.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by cmrdporcupine on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:53AM (#20203567)

Android Auto actually works quite well with Audi's jog wheel thing. The 2018 Q5 I rented last year had no touch screen, just this knob. Worked totally fine and required no touching a screen.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by basch on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:53AM (#20202930)

Acura is introducing a touchpad, with absolute, not relative, cursor positioning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcKa9apjOX8

It reminds me of the PSP/PSV having a touchpad on the back of the screen.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by cptskippy on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:16AM (#20203159)

They have physical controls for climate control and opted for nondescript buttons instead of knobs. Truly brilliant...

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by dman on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:22AM (#20203845)

This really saddens me. My 2010 Acura has controls that I really like, almost everything is a physical button/knob that I can hit without taking my eyes off the road.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by fishywang on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:33PM (#20209330)

I don't know about CarPlay but Android Auto works good enough with knob controls.

I have a 2014 Mazda3, which Mazda offered Android Auto/CarPlay upgrade for a fee earlier this year and I upgraded. My car has a touchscreen, but disables all touch features above a certain speed (5 or 10 mph I think). I don't think I'm really missing anything on Android Auto without touch.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by brokenmachine on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:04AM (#20230327)

I hate that kind of nanny stuff, what if you have a passenger and they can control it?

Does it also have a stupid screen that pops up every time you start the car saying, "don't use this while driving", or some such nonsense?

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by chipotle_coyote on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:04PM (#20205025)

CarPlay works with physical controls; it doesn't require a touch screen. (As another commenter noted, the same is true of Android Auto.)

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by ubermonkey on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:27PM (#20207970)

True. It's just generally better with one.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by ubermonkey on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:26PM (#20207958)

>the touchscreen should be disables while the car is moving

LOLNO. Not everyone is driving alone.

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