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  • Hyundai is slowly backing away from the all-screen approach to interior design.
  • Hyundai Design North America Vice President Ha Hak-soo said that people “get stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so.”
  • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    Good. This should be forced via regulations. Touchscreen controls are provably more dangerous than buttons due to the distraction.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    1·
    10 days ago

    Honestly. I’d be fine with a touchscreen for things you wouldn’t likely be adjusting on the go anyways - but basic stuff like the radio and AC/Fans should always be easy to distinguish, don’t need to look away from the road to operate buttons. Making basic stuff require touchscreen is inconvenient at best and outright dangerous at worst.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      10 days ago

      Give me a manageable handful of physical buttons with defaults but that I can customize. The pendulum swung too far. There is a Place for touch screens and buttons in cars. They can live in Harmony. Personally, I never want to see a climate control physical button except maybe for my passengers microclimates. I set a setpoint and set the fan to auto like I do in my house. Let the car adjust to the preferred setpoint. Heated seats / heated steering wheel? Programmed parameters. Stereo controls? Hell yeah, let’s get tactile - don’t make me look at anything for that. I don’t mind the idea of voice controls too, but I’ve never met one in a car that wasn’t frustrating AF. Prefer to leave that out until the tech improves.

      • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Conversely, I want the ac controls on physical buttons because when I’m in driving and am in direct sunlight, or when I’ve just jumped in the car after doing some heavy work, I want ice cold Antarctic air blowing on my face. The ambient temperature of the general cabin is irrelevant to me. I do not want to be hunting around through menus to find the ac fan control slider.

        • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          9 days ago

          I’m not opposed to a big Max AC button. Use it rarely because the car usually knows to crank it up, but sometimes I agree this button is nice.

          • 5in1k@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            I don’t want my car to know anything. I want it to do what I say and only what I say without question. I’m thinking of getting a 70’s truck.

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        My wife’s Ford Edge has the worst of both worlds. It has buttons for the stereo and AC but they’re all flat capacitive buttons so they barely work when you touch them and you still have to take your eyes off the road to find them.

    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Personally I don’t even need that, just give me aux and usb ports for my phone. It’ll be multitudes better than whatever hardware they use for the “infotainment” system.

      • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        I would rather have just a dumb display with an open standard that will mirror my phone and send touches back. Android auto is great but it’s a proprietary protocol that support could be dropped at any time. Same with apple. Everything that is not infotainment should be physical buttons so if I want to swap out my display for something else it won’t neuter my hvac

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          There should be the mandatory inclusion of a set of open APIs that pass info like:

          • display and audio signal (duh)

          • microphone audio (to pass voice commands)

          • whether the headlights are on (to offer auto dark mode switching on the display)

          • whether the handbrake is engaged (so things like video playback can be a parked-only feature)

          • crash sensor activation (so that a phone could, if the user desires, automatically alert emergency services)

          • For EVs, battery SoC (so that navigation software can include charging stops seamlessly)

          • whether the car is left-hand-drive or right-hand-drive (so on-screen buttons can always be close to the driver, not on the wrong side)

          From there on, there can be actual competition in the space. You’re not just limited to Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Any app would be able to use this API data.