Article here

 

Autocar is suggesting that the use of touch screens is more dangerous than a lot of illegal things (phone, drugs and drink!!)

 

I hate them cars and find them very difficult to use.

Totally agree , you very often have to look at a touch screen to use it but a 'proper' hardware button can be felt using fingers so there is rarely a need to look.

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1 hour ago, io1901 said:

Article here

 

Autocar is suggesting that the use of touch screens is more dangerous than a lot of illegal things (phone, drugs and drink!!)

 

I hate them cars and find them very difficult to use.

 

In a German court case (and appeal) the court decided when using it the driver had the same responsibilities/liabilities as if using a mobile device.

 

https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-illegal-germany-crashed/

 

https://www.sbdautomotive.com/en/insight-touchscreen-distraction

 

 

Edited 1 December, 20214 yr by cheezemonkhai

I think that many right handed people driving right hand drive cars find touch screens a PITA to use with fingers of their left hand.

 

The other day a guy in a Tesla was coming straight towards me and would have hit me head on while he was doing something on the screen in the middle of the car while using his right hand.

I clearly saw him coming as i was not messing about on mine and i pulled on to the verge, neither him or the cars fancy electrics / radar saw me. 

I half expected the Tesla Lane Keep Assist to steer the car into mine.

Edited 1 December, 20214 yr by roottoot

Gone are the days of muscle memory and tactile feedback, replaced by a sleek shiny screen that requires you to take your eyes off the road. Some of the cars are designed primarily as LHD, I'm looking at the VAG screens where the 'buttons' are situated on the far left side. Putting those aside, a lot of cars are now equipped with a lot of safety features like radar sensors, speed recognition, lane assist, adaptive cruise control and blind spot monitoring. But obviously mobile phones are more dangerous?

 

That being said, apparently it's okay to use a mobile phone as sat nav device if it's mounted properly (aka 'hands free'). A lot of the wording seems to fall onto the illegal use of 'hand-held' mobile phones, articles like here and here.

 

But of course I've seen many a white van driver driving with a mobile phone plastered against his face or a young lady with the phone held up against the steering wheel getting away with it.

Edited 1 December, 20214 yr by SomethingSuperbly
Clarity

I'll stick to this infotainment, methinks...

 

On 01/12/2021 at 10:33, io1901 said:

Autocar is suggesting that the use of touch screens is more dangerous than a lot of illegal things (phone, drugs and drink!!)

Did they need to write the article? Was it not already blindingly obvious to people?

 

26 minutes ago, Ttaskmaster said:

Did they need to write the article? Was it not already blindingly obvious to people?

 

No obvious to the car manufacturers (probably a cost cutting exercise.)

2 hours ago, Ttaskmaster said:

Did they need to write the article? Was it not already blindingly obvious to people?

 

Not to all the muttering rotters who talk at great length about how marvellous the 62" touch screen in the Thripps Thunderclap Mk 27 is!

16 hours ago, io1901 said:

No obvious to the car manufacturers (probably a cost cutting exercise.)

They're in this to make money - They're subhuman and so don't count any more... and they probably know full well, but still don't give a flip.

 

14 hours ago, KenONeill said:

Not to all the muttering rotters who talk at great length about how marvellous the 62" touch screen in the Thripps Thunderclap Mk 27 is!

They're the sheep from which the above-mentioned money is to be made - Again, drivelling subhumans who would likely never even read such articles anyway.

On 02/12/2021 at 18:17, Ttaskmaster said:

Did they need to write the article? Was it not already blindingly obvious to people?

 

 

On 02/12/2021 at 18:45, io1901 said:

No obvious to the car manufacturers (probably a cost cutting exercise.)

 

 

Its called "Marketing"...

 

Basically all companies want to make "x" percentage more profit than they did last year......

 

So if the market is saturated & your product sells well, instead of making it last longer & making your company more efficient, they all decide to make the previous model obsolete & flog an all new version...& in some cases just a reskin of the older one sold at an over inflated price...

 

So to make their product stand out from everybody else's, they look for a "USP" (Unique selling point)...once they have that on their product all the other companies then look at this USP & copy it on their new versions...& so on.... ad nauseum.

 

Forget saving the planet when you must "save the economy" by purchasing the latest whiz bang.....

 

 

I seem to remember an old parable called "the Emperor's new clothes"...🤔...

 

P.S. as somebody who has a bit of interest in engineering/design/etc...I prefer the old adage of "form following function"...unfortunately many products look crap, & don't even function properly...

Edited 3 December, 20214 yr by fabdavrav

On 01/12/2021 at 12:08, roottoot said:

I think that many right handed people driving right hand drive cars find touch screens a PITA to use with fingers of their left hand.

 

The other day a guy in a Tesla was coming straight towards me and would have hit me head on while he was doing something on the screen in the middle of the car while using his right hand.

I clearly saw him coming as i was not messing about on mine and i pulled on to the verge, neither him or the cars fancy electrics / radar saw me. 

I half expected the Tesla Lane Keep Assist to steer the car into mine.

 

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