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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: 2) by Reziac on Thursday April 02 2020, @03:21AM
First time I ever saw blue light inside a vehicle was my '78 F100 ... for the high beams indicator. Holy shit, good thing I was in the middle of nowhere first time I hit the switch. Had to pull over, root up some duct tape, and block it off so it would stop blinding me. (And just the reflection was still plenty damn enough.)
Same piece of tape was still there when we parted ways, 38 years later.
Every mechanic ever: Why is there duct tape stuck to your instrument panel??
Me: DON'T TOUCH THAT!!!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.