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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/

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd


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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by vux984 on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:06PM (1 child)

    by vux984 (5045) on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:06PM (#665958)

    Hopefully it would mostly kill off the people who think reassigning the steering wheel and brake pedal functions was a good idea, thereby solving the original problem.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday April 13 2018, @08:42PM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday April 13 2018, @08:42PM (#666620) Journal

    Alas those people would be smashing the accelerator into the crowd of screaming innocents, while championing their right to change the controls