Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by shripadk on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:45AM
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What happens if an object impacts a touchscreen and it breaks? I have my screens break (even behind a screen protector) and has failed to respond to touch. Imagine you are flying a plane and the touchscreen breaks due to impact. All your inputs are centralized behind that one touchscreen and you can no longer operate it. Wouldn't it be then better if there were multiple points of failure? You are decentralizing the impact a failure can have. Sometimes having multiple points of failure is a good thing. That way a failure in one component won't affect the other components.
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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by fleetingmoments on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:58AM
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Have a spare screen that you can just slot in and carry on.
Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by cesarb on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:13AM
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The airplane cockpits I've read about have multiple screens, with knobs selecting the function of each screen (and which of the redundant flight computers control each screen), so a failed screen can be replaced by selecting its function on another screen. This makes more sense (and is simpler) than carrying a replacement screen (which would be dead weight most of the time) and designing a hot-swap mechanism (which would be yet another potential point of failure).