Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si...
by koz1000 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:09PM
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Touchscreen engineer here. There is no such thing as an 'off-the-shelf' capacitive touchscreen.
There is always custom engineering to match the customer's housing and bezel, tune the analog characteristics to the electrical environment, and handle other requests like a safer/thicker cover glass, optical bonding to the LCD, and low friction or hydro/oleophobic coatings on the surface.
Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si...
by jessaustin on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:26PM
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No one is denigrating this work, but it's obviously easier to consistently get right than the fiddly processes GP describes. There is a rectangle of a particular size, and various substances are applied to it.
You didn't mention UI design, which is the worst aspect of this technology.
One off-the-shelf touchscreen... vs. lots of little custom-molded and printed analog parts that have to be assembled by costly robots or costlier humans. Big savings, I think.
Whatever the case, it sure isn't because people like touch controls in their cars. Holy shit, what a universally reviled "feature."