We need something better than touchscreens in cars(thejollyteapot.com)

3 pointsby meysamazad2 mesi fa3 comments

We need something better than touchscreens in cars

https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/05/10/we-need-something-better-than-touchscreens-in-cars/

3 comments

krabat2 mesi fa

- soon, very soon, cars will all be non-owned, meaning you can interact with them with less control than that of riding a taxi ("go this way or that"). It won't matter, basically, what the controls are. You won't have a say.

- aestetics have taken over. Physical dials, buttons and switches are always better than computer-translations of intent. Diagnostics CAN be an added computer, but it need not sit in the center of things. Therefore you don't need touch displays.

PaulHoule2 mesi fa

The other approach is to be like China and make touchscreen interfaces that don’t suck. Technically it is very possible, but mentally and ideologically carmakers find it very hard.

I think of how in the Camera industry it would be very possible for cameras to get software updates that add substantial new features but… they don’t.

kartik_malik2 mesi fa

they sucks and the software too it's super laggy in india, when you open 4-5 taps it stucks... hope someone build some lightweight os for cars or i need to go for it lol.