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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by HeWhoLurksLate on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:35AM (#20203384)
What about physical buttons for the more-used stuff (radio, AC, cruise control) and use voice control (along with physical buttons) for everything else?

Obviously, the voice control would need to havr some way to ignore the kids in the backseat, or can ask the driver / parent for permission for this to be a good idea.

Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:09PM (#20204416)
It's a bit difficult for people who can't speak: temporarily or permanently; have significant speech impediments; don't speak the language the car is (currently) programmed for, are already talking to a passenger, etc.
Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by Piskvorrr on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:11PM (#20204433)
The "obvious" problem is harder than it looks. Even searching in the navigation app gets confused by voice prompts from the same app...so you get things like "find closest gas speed station check ahead". And that's before you get various people involved, never mind any impediments.
Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by Moru on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:36PM (#20204675)
And speach is not as easy as a button / knobb for muscle memory. In my old car I didn't have to think, just do. A touchscreen just can't compete in a car.