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The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Re: The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Post by IIAOPSW »

Great taste but bad execution. It makes a ton of sense IMO to put all the controls on the steering wheel so that the driver never has to take their hand off of it to do something. Physical buttons like this are also great UI for critical controls (unlike touch screen). My only gripe is the layout they went with. Its very disorganized.

For things which are symmetrical within the car (door lock/unlock, windows up/down, turn signal) they should be symmetrical on the wheel as well. Critical elements to driving like the windshield wipers, defrosters, horn and turn signals should all be extremely self evident at a glance whereas amenity controls like radio and AC should be off to the side.

Re: The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Post by jccc »

This headline would be much less effective if it told you the truth, that the car never existed:

“Unfortunately for us, Oldsmobile never went ahead and produced the Incas. They made a slew of other wild concept cars as well, but none of those saw the light of day either […]”

Re: The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Post by Bluestein »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #19
willismichael wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no way to win that argument, the LLM will take control of the vehicle and refuse to let you make any decisions at all after that point. If you're really unlucky, it will really go rogue and make its own decision to veer into oncoming traffic.

We've replaced the CANBUS with a CANTBUS. For your protection.

(And it will sound like you while doing it - ie. deep-faking your own voice ...)

Re: The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Post by ryandrake »

Honestly wish there was more experimentation in automotive human-UX besides the current "Just put it all in touchscreen LOL" design rut we're in. A car today functions almost entirely like every car that's existed since the 1950s: Big, transparent window in front, a handful of "critical" gauges and displays underneath that window, a steering wheel that hasn't changed in a century (besides the addition of buttons), accessory devices/entertainment in a center stack on a central console, a glove box or some other storage in the passenger side. Any time a manufacturer deviates from the norm, even slightly, the result gets derided as weird and ugly, and we revert back to the 1950s. Have we really settled on objectively optimal controls?

Re: The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Post by Propelloni »

IIAOPSW wrote: post #21

Great taste but bad execution. It makes a ton of sense IMO to put all the controls on the steering wheel so that the driver never has to take their hand off of it to do something. Physical buttons like this are also great UI for critical controls (unlike touch screen). My only gripe is the layout they went with. Its very disorganized. For things which are symmetrical within the car (door lock/unlock, windows up/down,…

True, controls should be in range without taking the hands of the wheel, but putting buttons onto the steering wheel is only the second best option. I think a better choice are "satellites", as used by Renault or Nissan, behind the steering wheel and below the turn indicator and so on. Those are always at the same position, regardless of the steering wheel's rotation, and I can find and operate them without looking and without taking the hands of the steering wheel. I guess there are some issues with those, too, because they haven't been generally adopted.

Re: The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Dashboard (2020)

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

netsharc wrote: post #8
maxlin wrote: post #2

Cybertruck vibes on how much of a takeoff this was. Engineers who get ideas like this sold to the upper management always have my props (as long as they don't compromise the product too much that is) EDIT: jumped the gun on this one and confused some memories. This was just a prototype, with obviously different requirements for "selling" the idea but there were some actual production cars with ahead-of-their-time gra…

A touchscreen to change the temperature?! I'm glad that never caught on!

Anyone remember this HN submission, from awhile back?

https://jenson.org/tesla/

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