Re:Hyundai Promises to Keep Buttons in Cars
by otherme123 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:23AM
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This can be seen in plane cookpits, where a lot of things are migrating from physical buttons to the screens. But there are still a lot of knobs, buttons, levers...
Cockpit of an Airbus A380: https://i.stack.imgur.com/rLdZ3.jpg
The key seems to be to move the info to a screen, but still control the screen with physical buttons and not touching the screen. E.g. move the status display of the A/C to the central screen, but turn a knob to adjust the temperature.
If you have, for example, a screen which shows you docking crosses in the center of the picture and control buttons on the periphery of the picture, you still need to move your focus from the view to controls to operate them. This is a simplified example, just to illustrate my point.