Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches

Post by Brian_K_White » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 2:57 PM UTC

Gibbon1 wrote: post #149

systemvoltage wrote: post #79

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Now extend this reasoning to see why everything has become touch screen. It will all make sense. My oven has touch buttons. No idea if I pressed it or not because it doesn’t give feedback for a second or two. Good automotive quality switches and encoders are expensive. And they don’t make them anymore because market dumped them. See the dwindling alps catalog.

I got a new washer. You have to push a touch button for four seconds to wake it up. Then wait a couple of seconds for the controller to boot and show the touch screen. Then you select what wash mode you want by pressing the touch screen for two seconds for each selection.

Post by tzs » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 3:03 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #153

f1shy wrote: post #122

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Not only stupid. That is plain criminal.

I was in a car crash as a child. Two cars caught fire, although I didn't realise it until I got out. My door was blocked by another vehicle, as was my dad's. He was busy trying to get my sister to open her front passenger door, so he could clamber out after her. The other rear door was damaged, and I had to pull the latch and then kick it to open it. (Not sure how that would work with one of these small manual releas…

Post by malshe » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 3:08 PM UTC

  Did they do focus groups for this feature? Did they get responses like these?

  “I hate how easy and quick it is to get the glovebox open. Can you guys solve that?”

  “Is there any way to make simple acts I’m used to doing a real fucking chore?”

  “How can I be sure every single tiny fucking thing on this car will be an expensive hassle to repair in 10 years?

  “If the battery dies, is there any way to fuck me over even more than normal? Like, you know, hard?”

  “Can you just smack the shit out of me over and over again with like a slab of roast beef, or is there some electromechanical and software solution you can integrate into the car for the same effect?”

Post by steelframe » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 3:09 PM UTC

Akronymus wrote: post #277

rco8786 wrote: post #212

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.

I have a car with a touchscreen all in one for audio and such. I have to use bluetooth to connect my phone, rather than being able to just use USB. When starting the car, it loses the connection, and sometimes can't reestablish it. And like 1/10 times it asks me to stop the car to be able to pair it again. Especially annoying if it happens when I want to use GPS through my phone. (My record was having to stop -> star…

Post by indus » Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC