This was a wonderful read, thanks
Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough
snaggen@programming.dev 11 months ago
What?!? Pictures Under Glass turns out not to be the most desired solution for controling your car? Who could have guessed? /s
marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
phx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re fine for certain things on an evolving menu etc, but not anything where a tactile sense might be needed to avoid distraction. A lack of volume knob is the thing that pisses me off the most in many vehicles, including my own.
Also, power should be a physical cutoff and NOT a soft button for head units. The one of my car is a software toggle and when the system started glitching, froze and also put out high volume noise with no way to kill it except to shut off the vehicle when I could safely do so
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yep a good rule of thumb is probably “If you aren’t comfortable with having it disabled when the car is moving, don’t make it a picture under glass”. Managing playlists is a thing you can expect people to do when stationary, touchscreen is fine, skipping a song is done while driving, make it a button.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My '16 Prius has a pretty good balance between touchscreen and buttons. The only thing I don’t care for is having to use the touchscreen to change radio presets, but I usually stay on the same station anyway.