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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by mywittyname on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:14PM (#22741305)
What kills me is when "legacy" automakers have dashboards with 40 buttons on them, of which you use may 5 regularly. It's especially annoying when the functions I use every day are buried in nested menus, but the button for setting the clock, sending a text, or satellite radio is right there front and center.
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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by nikanj on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:54AM (#22746358)
It works better in a sales pitch. "If you want to text your broker to punch in a few trades, it's just one button away!".

Nobody bothers to write sales copy saying "You can actually change the cabin temperature and the radio volume on this car"

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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by DonHopkins on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:21PM (#22745313)
You need HyperCar: HyperCard for Cars!

Then you could delete the buttons you don't use, and make the ones you do use really big, with cool pictures, and funny sounds when you touched them.

HyperCard Adventures (hypercardadventures.com):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19237052

https://hypercardadventures.com/

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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls by frosted-flakes on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:21PM (#22741388)
There shouldn't be menus at all. Modal systems in general are hard to use while driving.
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