Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Please make a dumb car

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

161–170 of 671 posts

Re: Please make a dumb car

#161

Post by mwint »

chakintosh wrote: post #138
khazhoux wrote: post #74

Our Volvo doesn't let you adjust the volume when you're in reverse. That means if you're backing out of the garage and the music is blaring -- you can't turn it off! The Volvo UI pops up an almost full-display warning when it can't connect to the phone over bluetooth on startup. This UI takes priority over the rear camera . So I guess it's better to hit Timmy and his puppy when I'm backing out, so long as I know my p…

I'm a UX designer and I've taken delivery of an XC40 Recharge two months ago, and I've never felt dumber in my life. Don't get me wrong, the car is absolutely wonderful, but the UX is so badly designed it makes me question myself. For starters, I have absolutely no clue how to use the lights, fans and wipers. Just last Saturday, a design oversight (and idiocy from my part) caused me to reverse into another car parked…

I’m having a hard time understanding how “I forgot to change gears and then hit the gas” can be classed a UX problem. Sounds like PEBKAC.

Re: Please make a dumb car

#163

Post by raxxorrax »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #24

I would kill for Ye Olde Manually Wound windows. Electric windows struggle in temperature extremes, and seem to break down far more often than my old hand-cranked windows ever did. Also, I had more precise control with the hand-crank.

Time is running out for those. I have a car that is now over 20 years old (awesome car, I will miss it once it fails) and even that had electric windows in the most basic variant. Of course they will fail in winter regularly...

Bought it 7 years ago for less than a modern GPU currently costs. If you have a mechanic as a friend it can be extremely cheap to own a car. I wonder how the used market will look in the future, I guess prices will be a lot higher and many not security related features will be broken.

Buying a car > $15,000 is always idiotic if you do in any way care about losing $15,000 in my opinion. If you don't care about the money, a happy spending to you. Otherwise get a company car that is financed by other tax payers.

Re: Please make a dumb car

#164

Post by junon »

spydr wrote: post #9
junon wrote: post #5

Same with TVs, please. I can't find a single OLED on the market that doesn't have Android or some shitty Samsung OS installed on it.

What’s your gripe with android tvs? I hate Samsung for their ads but I own an android and have found it to be nothing less or more than what I need.

Collecting data, sometimes spamming the network with faulty code, some of them have cameras a lot of people don't even know about (since they blend in with the frame), and of course showing advertisements in your menu bars and sometimes when you start the TV.

Since when have we become complacent in subsidizing our product purchases with... more ads for other products? It's absolutely ludicrous.

Re: Please make a dumb car

#165

Post by raxxorrax »

random_savv wrote: post #67

> For media, an aux input does it all. Doubles as a charging cable, and you could easily swap it out for different and new devices I thought aux only carries analog sound, is charging a new feature? Did I miss Aux-C? What does the author mean?

There are some devices that are charged with aux cables, although it is rare. I think that is a bad solution because they almost always cause a short circuit when connecting/disconnecting. Usually that is neglected for audio signals because the power is quite low and devices have respective protections, but if you would use it for charging...

Re: Please make a dumb car

#169

Post by lacogubik »

mwint wrote: post #161
chakintosh wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a UX designer and I've taken delivery of an XC40 Recharge two months ago, and I've never felt dumber in my life. Don't get me wrong, the car is absolutely wonderful, but the UX is so badly designed it makes me question myself. For starters, I have absolutely no clue how to use the lights, fans and wipers. Just last Saturday, a design oversight (and idiocy from my part) caused me to reverse into another car parked…

I’m having a hard time understanding how “I forgot to change gears and then hit the gas” can be classed a UX problem. Sounds like PEBKAC.

I think what they are implying is that car with so many safety features should be able to handle this situation. Volvo has lot of "collision avoidance" safety features, so one would expect that they could handle this as well.

This is common feature in other cars - I rented mazda few years back and it did automatically stop when I almost reversed into another car.

Re: Please make a dumb car

#170

Post by raxxorrax »

MagnumOpus wrote: post #151
KennyBlanken wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the TV has just one proprietary port where you connect the One Connect Box. That is not a step forward.

It is - at least you can then exchange the box with the ARM CPU when the new versions of Netfix and Youtube apps start requiring 16GB of memory and a teraflop CPU, without having to chuck a screen that works perfectly fine. Of course you can also just by an external Nvidia Shield unit and connect it by HDMI, like you can now.

Does the display have a HDMI ports or only the connector box? If the screen has some, it would be awesome. If it is only the box it would be crap.
Post reply on HN