Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by dkersten on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:48AM
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Perhaps because cars ran just fine (albeit with fewer features) for a long time with zero lines of code.
Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by dzhiurgis on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:26PM
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So did horses without any gasoline
Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:42PM
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Yeah, and so did banks, and so did airplanes.
Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by dkersten on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:10AM
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So the more important question is: did adding software improve things (enough to be worth the “cost”)?
With cars, there are certainly many things where it did improve things: satnav, reverse camera, traction control etc, but also some where it made a perfectly working system worse (ie the “fixed” something that wasn’t broken): touchscreen dashboards.
I would expect a car to have tons of code.
Think of all the functions...
Engine management, Engine monitoring, Powertrain control, Emissions, Diagnostics, Infotainment, Satnav, Climate Control, Traction Control, ABS, Anti-collision radar, Cruise control, Lane keeping, Backup camera, Parking sensors...
Now keep in mind that these hundreds of components exist in many many possible configurations so the system needs to handle having certain hardware available or not, and also handle a multitude of failure modes gracefully.