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Massive loop hole (discuss.online)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 50 points 3 months ago (4 children)

These to a fucking tea. And cause it's a flat touch screen you can't even feel your way around to the correct settings while looking at the road.

I'll happily have no screen and old analog controls, and yes, I realise I sound like an old man yelling at clouds.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Its understandably more expensive for the car companies - they have to make the machine that makes the parts for a retro dash, then install them - but fuck the car companies, this is about safety and ease of use.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Having repaired some of the knobs on my dash, I assure you, they are less expensive than a TV. The AC knob is like 2 pieces of plastic and some bike brake style tension cables that hook to a leuvre somewhere inside. A touch screen is going to be a tabled screen and a motor on that leuvre etc.

    Granted, I have a cheap little car.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I remember years ago seeing a video about a company that was supposably developing tactile touchscreens. There was a layer underneath the LCD layer that could be puffed out with some kind of fluid to form bumps where the buttons were shown. Nothing has come of this, unsurprisingly.

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