Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

Finally. Are they actually hiring decent UX folks this time or are they using the people who designed 1980s VCR programming UIs again?

did 80s VCRs even have OSD? we went from a top loading National to a hi-fi so basically skipped the 80s. and 90s VRC UX would be perfectly acceptable as far as I’m concerned.

They mostly didn’t have OSDs, they instead had indecipherable 7-segment and some fixed elements like ‘Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa’, with 2 or 3 buttons. The younger Gen-X/older Millennials got their reputation as ‘whiz kids’ in part by handling those interfaces on behalf of their mystified parents.

You mean like the 1985 Subaru XT Coupe? God I love that cassette futurism look!

Steering wheel looks like a gun which fits since it’ll probably kill you

That is such a strange looking steering wheel.

Funny part is it looks sci-fi to me.

This will never not be sci fi to me lol

The retro futurism of the 80’s was the best

Some of the most zany quirks and features of any car!

Get outta here, Doug Demuro! Go back to YouTube!

80s and early 90s designed the best dashboards. Change my mind mf.

Yeah, so the thing is, any amount of trust that I had has already been completely destroyed. “We don’t do it anymore because it’s illegal, trust me bro” isn’t going to cut it. Does the bill include mandatory prison time for executives for violations, or just cost-of-doing-business fines? Will this be enforced by a government regulatory body that is not literally outnumbered 20:1 by car manufacturer lawyers?

If the car has any kind of network capabilities and 100% of the car’s software is not open source, I’m not buying it. Period.

This bill would not need to exist if cars were FOSS, or if cars were non-networked. Those are the only 2 solutions that I will accept. This bill is worthless to me.

It’s nice to have principles, but in a few years you’re going to have to find a new way to get around.

Will the regulatory body be stacked with, and bribed by auto execs?

I agree with you, the damage has been done. That’s why I’m looking at alternative methods of transportation, like an ebike or public transit. Hopefully your area has good infrastructure for that.

I didn’t read too far, but,

To restrict car manufacturers and other companies from selling consumer car-related data, increase transparency regarding data practices, and for other purposes.

already skips over collecting the data, so yeah. I would guess this bill just exists for the optics, and isn’t actually intended to challenge the industry.

something, something, open source car.

Some nerd running Gentoo on his car. Has to recompile everything every time he has an oil change.

But once it’s recompiled it runs so smooth.

Hahaha, that’s cute.

But we’ve still got a good 10 years of avoiding used cars. This era is literally landfill.

10 years and counting

There’s so much bullshit in new cars that’s it’s infuriating, especially considering the cars call home with all kinds of privacy violating bullshit.

Never mind that even 3-5 years down the line, some of these systems will fail to connect/ pair with the latest gadget in your pocket.

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