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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by daotoad on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:50PM (#22740277)
You can still die if the driver spends too long messing with air conditioner settings instead of focusing on the road.

CarPlay and Android Auto make this problem worse, IMO. Now you have app publishers writing arbitrarily complex UIs for cars. Spotify is a bitch to use while driving and because of Apple's reluctance to enable Siri support for third party apps, it's not very controllable by voice.

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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by diydsp on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:46PM (#22740992)
yup, just rented a cool modern car and was distraught at how much menu-diving there was. and even if you memorize it, the lag was still huge vs. real-time controls!
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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by sigspec on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:50PM (#22745460)
"Siri, play the Eagles on spotify"

Been available for a little bit now.

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-siri-to-control-...

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