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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 01 2020, @04:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the inappropriate-touching dept.

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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2020, @04:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2020, @04:05PM (#978082)

    > "Hal, open the pod bay doors."

    Hope you have a spare key, you're never going to get HAL to open those doors!

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday April 02 2020, @01:46AM (1 child)

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday April 02 2020, @01:46AM (#978210) Journal

    I have wondered about electronic safes... What happens if the battery goes dead?

    I might consider one if it had external charging and appropriate input power screening.

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    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday April 02 2020, @03:28AM

      by Reziac (2489) on Thursday April 02 2020, @03:28AM (#978223) Homepage

      IIRC the LockPicking Lawyer opened one rather quickly...

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