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Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches

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Post by tester756 »

phlhr wrote: post #33
BizarreByte wrote: post #8

I don't want touch screens in cars period and I can't stand this trend of using them. I'm finally starting to understand the feelings my grandfather had for anything thing he considered superfluous or inconvenient in a car.

Same could have been said for smartphone physical keyboard yet here we are. Touch screen is a better interface because the UI can adapt to the context. I get that when you are driving you don’t want to have to look at the screen but honestly the benefits far outweigh the perceived cons.

>but honestly the benefits far outweigh the perceived cons.

how?

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Post by rco8786 »

I continue to be genuinely shocked that we don't treat touch screens in cars the same way we do as phones in cars (that is to say, it is literally illegal to use them while the vehicle is moving in most places because the distraction is such a danger). Moving away from tactile in-car controls has to be among the more boneheaded things we've allowed that industry to do.

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Post by D13Fd »

dylan604 wrote: post #78
D13Fd wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real answer for all of those things is obvious - don’t put important stuff in the glove box. But they still show just how dumb this design is, because it doesn’t fit how people use glove boxes.

Wow, I never thought I'd hear a more tone deaf response than "you're holding it wrong", but yet, here we are. Maybe you forgot the /s?

I was trying to say that yes, the design is bad, but the problems are not exactly unsolvable either.

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Post by adhesive_wombat »

jsemrau wrote: post #129
BizarreByte wrote: post #8

I don't want touch screens in cars period and I can't stand this trend of using them. I'm finally starting to understand the feelings my grandfather had for anything thing he considered superfluous or inconvenient in a car.

The round knob to increase / decrease sound volume is simply the best UX in the car. Why do I have to navigate to a submenu to push a button repeatedly to change the volume. The less I look at the road the higher the risk of an accident.

My old car has a navigation thing that pops up out of the dashboard. It's not a touchscreen: all control of that is by a four-way button plus a confirm and an exit button on the back of the steering wheel.

The new car has a big flashy touchscreen, but there's no way to interact with it without taking a hand off the wheel and looking down below the dashboard line.

I don't know why they can't at least add button-based navigation to the UI.

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Post by nikau »

phlhr wrote: post #33
BizarreByte wrote: post #8

I don't want touch screens in cars period and I can't stand this trend of using them. I'm finally starting to understand the feelings my grandfather had for anything thing he considered superfluous or inconvenient in a car.

Same could have been said for smartphone physical keyboard yet here we are. Touch screen is a better interface because the UI can adapt to the context. I get that when you are driving you don’t want to have to look at the screen but honestly the benefits far outweigh the perceived cons.

> Same could have been said for smartphone physical keyboard yet here we are.

Yep that's why everyone is using 6" touchscreen keyboards on laptops and desktop PCs - oh wait, they aren't because there is plenty of space for physical buttons that work better.

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Post by pacificmint »

stavros wrote: post #184
MrFoof wrote: post #89

GM also has electronic primary door release mechanisms in their vehicles. So if the car has no power, you can’t open the doors from inside. Granted, because of regulatory requirements there is STILL A MANUAL RELEASE… on the floor, near the chassis sill (and might be driver-seat only). So you save money going to electronic releases, but still have to put a manual one in anyways. The glovebox is merely annoying (though…

The glove box is where I keep my safety hammer.

Time to put a safety glovebox crowbar in your center console.

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Post by alias_neo »

spyke112 wrote: post #195
alias_neo wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does this work in a plain-old car with child locks set on the rear doors? My children had opened the doors while the car was moving at least once before I had to use the child locks; now, as far as I can tell, nobody is getting out of the back doors unless they're opened from the outside.

Maybe they disable if an airbag is triggered? Could also be the child lock requires constant current, so that it’s off by default?

In my car they're mechanical, as I assume they still are in most modern, non-hyper-modern cars (like Teslas) so my curiosity was more of a "is there an exit strategy if the child locks are on and it's not possible to exit through the front doors"?

There's no mechanical override inside the boot (trunk) that I'm aware of and the mechanical child locks also have no internal override (that I'm aware of).

I guess in case of emergencies, the windows are the best exit strategy in such a hypothetical situation.

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