Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens

Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by javajosh on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:41AM (#34289013)

If your car doesn't have any internet connected software, then there is no mechanism to make a feature artificially scarce, requiring you to pay money on an on-going basis to remove the artificial limit.

People may have sold subscription services for cars before 2010, but they were luxuries and without "teeth". This is different.

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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by flavius29663 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:58AM (#34289236)

the car can be connected and still have manual controls...it's not like the touchscreen is required for internet.

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Re:Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to... by acdha on Saturday January 07, 2023 @01:27PM (#34290961)

> If your car doesn't have any internet connected software, then there is no mechanism to make a feature artificially scarce

Here are things which were actually shipped for decades prior to internet restrictions:

* charging for updates to mapping, and later GPS, software

* restricting features based on physical dongles

* restricting features based on dates (don’t forget that times can be set passively using radio so you can’t just easily roll the clock back)

* restricting features based on use counts (anyone think some MBA isn’t dreaming of “pay $1000 for 200 crush-it™ acceleration boosts!”)

* having some indicator of feature use (burnt out fuse, EEPROM, etc.) so using something you haven’t licensed means you can’t get any official service or warranty claims

Beyond that, we’re talking about controls. Touchscreens are not internet access and there’s no reason to think the two would be linked here when they aren’t in any other area.

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