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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by sergiosgc on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:39AM (#37420586)
Physical knobs and buttons are great for muscle memory. How much of a muscle memory do you have for the controls setting mirror position? For setting fade/balance on the stereo? Enabling valet mode?

The UI question is only valid for controls used frequently. For everything else, I think it is already settled that they are better in the screen. At the very least, for the sake of UI simplicity. I can't imagine a physical interface for enabling or disabling every driving assistance option in a Tesla. It'd become an airliner button panel.

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Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare by ragnese on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:38PM (#37423585)
Fair point. We don't need dedicated, physical, buttons for infrequent or unimportant things.

But, to be fair, I don't think that most people who vocally hate touch screens in cars are upset that the car manufacturers are making them set their clock via touch buttons. I assume (and I could be wrong) that they're talking about things like A/C settings, radio tuning, etc. If they aren't, then at least I am. Being able to reach over with my muscle memory to change the radio to one of my presets (yeah, I'm some old-school weirdo who still listens to FM radio when I drive) is something I appreciate.

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