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Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls:
Honda has done what no other car maker is doing, and returned to analogue controls for some functions on the new Honda Jazz.
While most manufacturers are moving to touchscreen controls, identifying smartphone use as their inspiration - most recently seen in Audi's latest A3 - Honda has decided to reintroduce heating and air conditioning controls via a dial rather than touchscreen, as in the previous-generation Jazz.
Jazz project leader Takeki Tanaka explained: "The reason is quite simple - we wanted to minimise driver disruption for operation, in particular, for the heater and air conditioning.
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It seems to me that neither physical controls nor voice controlled operation are fundamentally incompatible with cars being both smart and connected.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:15AM
volume and channel should be proper buttons.
Optional buttons on the steering wheel are fine, but only if they make sense.
My car (Skoda Octavia) has volume spinner, track up.down, channel up/down, and mute buttons on the left, and six buttons on the left for the dash menu and phone
I use the volume spinner. Otherwise, I use the buttons around and under the screen (which are proper hard, spinning knobs - and the volume works on everything, no matter which 'function' is on the screen - best UI I have seen.
BUT control anything else requires stopping the car an navigating up to seven levels of menus.
Alas, the one in my car has been replaced with 'normal' VW-group systems - screen touch buttons rather than clicky ones, "airplay" and google crap...
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