Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'

Re:Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are '... by diblasio on Saturday November 02, 2024 @09:46AM (#42026363)

This is why choice is good in the market. What’s dangerous and distracting for you may be comfortable for me. Funny also that you mentioned connected devices as well. Recently a physical button died on my washer and I was able to still use it through home assistant integration while I waited for service.

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Re:Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are '... by epolanski on Saturday November 02, 2024 @10:16AM (#42026528)

There is no choice, everything's moving to digital because it's cheaper.

Tesla literally changed their entire UX and UI from one day to the other confusing my in-law for weeks.

What used to be standard icons on all cars on analog knobs and buttons are now stylized bs all different from car to car. Every car I need to learn its own menus and try to find where are things hidden, as someone who has to lease cars often I truly hate it.

Your washer example is comedy because it either confirms that it's yet another digital crap for something like this to happen. Never had good washers/fridges or whatever had their physical buttons or knobs break bar a stove one in 37 years of my life because of an accident, and fixing it was few euros without the need of service.

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