The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by post_break on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:48PM (#35721882)

I have a new miata, the touch screen is disabled above a certain speed. It's the worse of both worlds. Touch screen sometimes, jog wheel other times. The cursor on the screen lags so you're looking at the screen trying to figure out what is highlighted vs taking 1 second to touch the button you want. It's so bad I ripped out the screen and installed a 3rd party wireless carplay screen before the first car payment. It's 1000% better now.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by wlesieutre on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:15PM (#35722054)

Their new models allow you to enable it all the time (CX-50, I assume CX-90 and the upcoming CX-70), which I do think is a good idea.

Not even just for the driver to be touching it, but if you have a passenger you can let them deal with putting in directions or managing your audio and the wheel is a lot less obvious than a touchscreen to someone who isn't familiar with it.

And as a driver, it felt like there were some things where it'd be easier to just touch the screen too. Like for the buttons scattered around the corner of Maps, scrolling through a list or a grid is easy to navigate, random stuff all over the screen you'll have to learn the order.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by Izikiel43 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:33PM (#35722178)

Learn it, it takes 5 minutes, I know because I’ve done it. As a passenger dealing with the knob is easy enough, no need for touching the screen.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by wlesieutre on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:28AM (#35729580)

I'll usually be driving with a visually impaired passenger, so it'd be more like "lean up close to the screen to try and find where the little selection highlight is and then reach backward to try and use the knob to move it around" so for us in particular a touchscreen would be easier. Realistically I would just end up doing everything myself instead, but a touchscreen option would be nice.

Apparently the Japanese market version for 2024 is getting a 10.25" screen which I'm guessing is the same part as the CX-50. That could mean adding touch for CarPlay, but none of the articles mention it one way or the other. Maybe I'll wait and see about the US update before making any buying decisions.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by NoZebra120vClip on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:10PM (#35722474)

Let's say like the FAA now, if an auto has a distracting touchscreen interface, a navigator in the passenger seat is mandatory, and must be well-trained on the user interface. That legislation should go over like a lead balloon!

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by ghostpepper on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:57PM (#35722350)

FWIW I've never had an issue with the wheel in my CX5. I don't use the touchscreen at all, even at low speeds.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by iakov on Friday April 28, 2023 @05:53AM (#35739338)

A have a 2016 Mazda3. The infotainment is useless, so I just leave it on the home page usually. I've ordered a CarPlay retrofit that uses the stock screen, wondering if the enabling/disabling behaviour will be the same it CarPlay.

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