• Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Touch screens are great in cars! For one purpose. The navigation. The touchscreen should only display navigation and function as a keyboard to search it, and only while the car is stationary. Everything else should have a physical control, at bare minimum as “backup”

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      10 months ago

      Bring back the standard DIN design. Then we can all change out our head unit with something that has Garmin but doesn’t affect the physical buttons on the dash below it.

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        10 months ago

        i wish that still existed, there’s conversions for some modern cars, but it has basically vanished.

        welp, gotta stock up on spare parts for my little nugget i guess…

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      10 months ago

      but imagine how incredible physical controls for navigation could be

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        10 months ago

        I’m imagining etch-a-sketch plan routing.

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        10 months ago

        My 2012 Pathfinder was the last year of that generation and had navigation designed before UX was really emphasized. It mainly relies on physical buttons and it’s overall terrible. Part of it involves an iPod-like scroll wheel, which is actually kinda nice to control zoom but that display is another kind of terrible.

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        10 months ago

        Mate there’s like, a whole paragraph left in my comment. You can’t safely type any navigation information while driving. If you want to use voice control to navigate, it doesn’t really matter if it’s physical controls or a touch screen. Maybe read the whole comment where all of this was already addressed.

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        10 months ago

        Ok, lets hear your idea for how to navigate while driving. Please don’t say voice control, because voice control rarely works as needed.

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          10 months ago

          Passenger does it? Have a sensor to see if there is a passenger, then allow it.

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            10 months ago

            And of course, we can rely on the universally true mutual exclusivity of always having a passenger when we need to navigate, and never needing to navigate when we don’t have any passengers. As constant as the north star, that one.

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              10 months ago

              If you need to do navigation, you stop your car. If you have a passenger, he or she can do it while you are driving. It’s not that hard

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              9 months ago

              I was getting down voted because apparently everyone thought I means have a passenger do the navigation?

              I meant that the driver should NEVER do navigation whilst driving because that kills people, there is no discussion there. So you either pull over, set the navigation computer and continue, or if you have a passenger, that passenger can do the navigation computer while you are driving.

              This is not controversial, this is basic driving

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            10 months ago

            “The suspect was seen leaving the scene with a waterbed strapped into the passenger’s seat”