Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same

MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, buttons can be found without looking.

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• nexusband@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  THE reason i got a Mazda…

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  • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like not enough people realize how amazingly simple and tactile the rotating dial is for doing anything in a car. And especially the placement being down by your arm makes it so easy. I can feel where all those buttons are without taking my eyes off the road.

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• Haywire@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also make them illegal in aircraft! And spacecraft! Seriously stupid.

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  • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I vote for cheap PlayStation controllers.

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    • rndll@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Weren’t they using an Xbox controller for that Titan sub?

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      • averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it was a PC controller in the form factor of a PlayStation controller

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was a Logitech F710.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suppose the advantage on aircraft and spacecraft is that they consolidate functions so you don’t have to have 90,000 switches in the cockpit, half of which you won’t ever need.

    Anything you need to find in an emergency absolutely should be a physical switch but anything else can probably be a UI interface.

    But in the car you need to keep your eyes on the road at all times, which isn’t so much of a requirement in the air.

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    • Haywire@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t think of a switch you won’t ever need. I think the “sce to aux” story is a good example of when you need it you need it.

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    • prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you can consolidate the UI to make it with work with touchscreen, you can make it work with something like Keyboard + trackball mouse and you can get rid of that touchscreen. I know it’s not the same stake situation but have people forgotten how much functionality blackberry had with QWERTY and few more buttons. Shame that the company went out the way it did

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  • sfgifz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also make them illegal in aircraft

    Salty Boeing

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So much this, it makes no sense for using a portable phone to be illegal while driving but yet my car stereo can be a full on entertainment system and require me to have zero feedback to change the channel or answer a call.

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• BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure they are for safety critical controls, such as in an aircraft cockpit. In the automotive world, we like to keep it jazzy and smooth, like my romantic life.

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  • Haywire@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They aren’t. Light ircraft now use touchscreens that you are supposed to use while bouncing around. They had a knob for a while but then it seemed touchscreens took over. With the knob you still had to look, it at least you didn’t have to aim at a bouncing spot on the screen.

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    • BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh wow, you guys get the cool stuff too? That must add some much need spice to the humdrum activity of controlling a potentially lethal machine.

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