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Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Re: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Post by SilasX »

jetrink wrote: post #15

I will never understand how this trend started in the first place. If you look at e.g. digital cameras, they all have touch screens these days, but they also still have buttons and dials everywhere. The one in front of me has eight physical buttons, seven dials and a power switch. The reason is obvious: when you're taking photos, you don't want to be looking down at a screen; you want to be focused on the task at han…

Yeah, that’s what I hate about taking pictures with their iPhone, the lack of a tactile button for taking the shot. It’s especially bad when you have to photograph without a view of the screen.

(So that you don’t guess, I mean when photographing the back of my head or the inside of a tight crawl space when my cat got inside.)

Re: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Post by thedance »

zchrykng wrote: post #97
thedance wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do I need my camera to have GPS? In what situation would I be equipped with a camera and not my phone, which certainly has a GPS? This seems like the same instinct that makes OEMs put mobile modems in laptops, as if I would ever have my laptop but not my phone to which to tether it.

GPS in the camera is handy for auto-tagging the location of the photos. Which is nice for when on trips.

Thanks. I am familiar with why you want location data in photos. I am not familiar with any justification for why this data cannot be acquired from my mobile.

Re: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Post by gnicholas »

Shivetya wrote: post #92

I will defend the screen in the Tesla 3, the simple fact is that you really never have to use on your typical drive and yes muscle memory works for simple UIs like what the Tesla employs. Compared to 40+ buttons in my previous Volt AND a screen. Many cars have that many or more buttons and this is easier? Where screen's become distracting is when the UI is shit, having more than one or two clicks to do anything, and…

Touchscreens that are huge are somewhat less of an issue because tap targets are much bigger. But most non-luxury vehicles come with 7 or 8 inch screens, so tap targets are small/clustered. Layer on that the fact that many screens aren't capacitive (and instead require a certain amount of pressure from your finger/fingernail), and things get even more annoying/dangerous.

Re: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Post by black6 »

samizdis wrote: post #8

Eminently sensible call by Honda. Knobs, dials and switches work well and do not demand that a driver takes their eyes off the road. I suppose that voice controls would be a reasonably safe tech option, but probably not cost-effective.

I'm still waiting for the convenient floor-mounted headlamp dimmer switch to come back.

Re: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Post by dorkwood »

Is there a name for this phenomenon where manufacturers build harmful features into their products purely for the technical credibility? It's the same with motion smoothing and televisions -- the experience is massively degraded, but the technology is impressive, so presumably sales will increase.

Re: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

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Post by bitcurious »

SilasX wrote: post #101
jetrink wrote: post #15

I will never understand how this trend started in the first place. If you look at e.g. digital cameras, they all have touch screens these days, but they also still have buttons and dials everywhere. The one in front of me has eight physical buttons, seven dials and a power switch. The reason is obvious: when you're taking photos, you don't want to be looking down at a screen; you want to be focused on the task at han…

Yeah, that’s what I hate about taking pictures with their iPhone, the lack of a tactile button for taking the shot. It’s especially bad when you have to photograph without a view of the screen. (So that you don’t guess, I mean when photographing the back of my head or the inside of a tight crawl space when my cat got inside.)

FYI the volume buttons work as shutter buttons when using the native camera app.
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