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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by BanazirGalbasi on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:45AM (#20202845)
Not sure if you're trying to support his point or refute it, but those scroll wheels are a great example of physical controls done right.
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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by natch on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:26AM (#20203270)
The person being replied to claimed falsely that it's an "all-touchscreen" UI so I would see it as a refutation. The Tesla UI is fantastic.

If there were an all-touchscreen UI (but there is not) yeah that would not be ideal as long as full self driving is not yet here.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by amluto on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:53AM (#20202932)
The original Model S scroll wheels are not. They regularly fail to correctly count the number of ticks. Worse, you spend quite a bit of time staring at the dash computer trying to get them into the correct mode.

My first car had dedicated buttons, which was the correct design.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by CrazyStat on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:59AM (#20202989)
The fact that they don't accurately track the number of clicks is annoying, but I spend zero time staring at the dash to get them in the correct mode. My left is set to volume and the right set to AC temp and in the past year I've never felt the need to change that.
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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by cptskippy on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:24AM (#20203241)
On the flip side, the Nissan Leaf with premium audio is an example of physical controls done wrong. Everything is buttons with no tactile way to home your hand, you have to take your eyes off the road to fine the right button.

My old Honda had 3 knobs on the console with the center one being larger. There was no ambiguity when you blindly groped for controls.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by CrazyStat on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:53AM (#20202929)
I'm not sure it cleanly falls on either category. I agree with him that an all-touchscreen UI would be terrible, but I am correcting the misconception that Tesla has an all-touchscreen UI, because it doesn't.

I also agree that those scroll wheels are great.

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