Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by toyg on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:33PM (#20205359)

I'm European, I didn't even know automatic transmission existed before I was 30 :)

The gearstick is one control with a very limited set of never-changing options that you have to use all the time, basically the best you can get as muscle-memory goes. Despite all this, it's not used where hyper-attention on the road is really necessary, i.e. in racing. And where do we get gearshift controls in racing? On the wheel.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by potta_coffee on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:34AM (#20209817)

There are plenty of racing cars with stick shifts in them. Or are you thinking of a specific type of racing?

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by toyg on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @04:54AM (#20210768)

Wherever the car is built only for racing, like LeMans or Formula*, it typically doesn’t feature a stick.

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