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It’s even funnier when you need to reboot the car while driving, because the browser crashed and the interface became unresponsive
Don’t forget, in a Tesla, you even need to use the iPad to adjust where the AC vents are pointing!
And to put the car in drive or reverse
That’s hilarious but I don’t know if you’re joking
Not a joke.
Bwahahahaha
Touchscreens in cars are a really stupid idea.
Touchscreen only is a terrible idea. I think it’s fine if you have play, pause, volume and mute buttons and have to use the touchscreen to enter your Spotify login details.
I hate mine.
These to a fucking tea. And cause it’s a flat touch screen you can’t even feel your way around to the correct settings while looking at the road.
I’ll happily have no screen and old analog controls, and yes, I realise I sound like an old man yelling at clouds.
Its understandably more expensive for the car companies - they have to make the machine that makes the parts for a retro dash, then install them - but fuck the car companies, this is about safety and ease of use.
Having repaired some of the knobs on my dash, I assure you, they are less expensive than a TV. The AC knob is like 2 pieces of plastic and some bike brake style tension cables that hook to a leuvre somewhere inside. A touch screen is going to be a tabled screen and a motor on that leuvre etc.
Granted, I have a cheap little car.
On some Teslas, even the gear selection is done through the touchscreen. Fucking awful design.
No. Way.
How is that legal?
Oh wait, it’s not a manual of course…
Yeah, you aren’t changing gears while driving, you’re switching between forward and backward, so you’re already stationary.
Oh wait, it’s not a manual of course…
It’s a modern EV… It doesn’t even have a transmission.
All you’re picking is Park, Drive, Neutral, or Reverse.
If Elon decreed that the Tesla iPad would now also give the driver, say, a prediction market gambling feature or X-rated AI chatbot or something, there’s nothing any government would do to stop him*, because after all he is a visionary genius and was a trillionaire and you can’t argue with the invisible hand of the free market.
* the US and UK would wave it through, because you can’t hold up the inevitability of the future. The EU would grumble, though might fold under the threat of tariffs.
I participated in a driving simulation a while back. It was a real vehicle that had full motion, but was on hydraulic struts instead of wheels.
They were testing how phone usage affected people.
It’s texting that’s the problem. I murdered a few jaywalkers only while interacting with creating words. Not when on speaker phone and not when just looking at the phone.
Touchscreens aren’t really that bad when designed well.
Even if having to interact with a big touch screen while driving were truly safe, I don’t want to have to deal with that when I’m driving.
It’s not just texting - I looked at the console to see what song was playing and then rear-ended the car in front of me that had stopped suddenly.
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Anything that distracts from actually paying attention to driving is a problem.That’s not new, looking at the radio has been a thing since the 80’s.
Yes yes, the three numbers on the dial.
The 80’s were when digital radios came out. Quite annoying. I’m sure there was the same complaints then as now.
I call bullshit because you can’t adjust the ac or radio without taking your eyes off the road
