Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
by ajross on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:20PM
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> That just does not happen with physical controls.
I was driving a car once where the handle to the stick shift literally popped off in my hand. So... no, that's just silly. Stuff breaks. Important stuff breaks. You deal with that with careful design and redundancy[1], not whining on the internet about touchscreens.
[1] Like how in the Tesla all the driving controls are, in fact, NOT connected to the touchscreen controlled by the MCU but to the AP computer.
I was driving a car once where the handle to the stick shift literally popped off in my hand. So... no, that's just silly. Stuff breaks. Important stuff breaks. You deal with that with careful design and redundancy[1], not whining on the internet about touchscreens.
[1] Like how in the Tesla all the driving controls are, in fact, NOT connected to the touchscreen controlled by the MCU but to the AP computer.