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Re:Cars Suck, Man by alexpotato on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:21AM (#38991174)
There was a story about BMW in the early 2000s when digital screens/menus etc started to appear in cars.

The story is that a BMW exec brought a design team to see a Volkswagen Jetta and said:

"We are supposed to be the 'ultimate driving machine' but our customers say we have too many menus, buttons etc.

Looks at this VW?

Simple buttons, layout and instruments. Nothing extra. THAT is the ultimate driving machine."

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Re:Cars Suck, Man by voisin on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:41AM (#38991386)
And then they came up with the ridiculous circle controller and the requirement to still cycle through menus, rather than keeping things to toggle buttons.
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