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posted by chromas on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the tactile-response-is-for-knobs dept.

When I went car shopping recently, I was amazed by the autonomous technologies in most new models: automatic lane-keeping, braking to avoid collisions and parallel parking, for example.

But I was appalled by the state of dashboard technology. Technology sells, so car companies are all about touch screens and apps these days. Unfortunately, they're truly terrible at designing user interfaces (UIs)—the ways that you, the human, are supposed to interact with it, the car. A good user interface (a) is easy to navigate, (b) puts frequently used controls front and center, (c) gives clear feedback as you make a change and (d) is apparently beyond the capabilities of today's car companies. I asked my Twitter followers to help me nominate the World's Worst Car UI Designs—and I was flooded with responses.

Source:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automobile-dashboard-technology-is-simply-awful/

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:49PM (#665882)

    in 20 years the new revised road signs will no longer read "Atlanta 20 miles"

    These signs are obsolete. What could you possibly need them for? Your GPS system will tell you exactly how far it is to your exact destination; signs telling you the distance to some arbitrary point inside a city that you aren't going to anyway isn't useful, and is just a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:59PM (#665919)

    Get back with us when Gay Positioning System navigation become mandatory in both new and old cars and other vehicles. Then perhaps you will have a point.

    "Turn left in to river". *Splash*.

    Some of us like to know where we REALLY are and not rely on some overcomplicated corporate dreck.