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Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls

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

DannyB writes:

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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Original Submission

• Article is wrong; it's not just Honda (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 02 2020, @03:34AM

  by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday April 02 2020, @03:34AM (#978226)

  Honda isn't the only one to buck this industry trend: the latest Mazdas are the same way. The screen is operated via a "commander" knob on the center console. The previous models were pretty similar, with the same knob, though the screen was also a touchscreen (but the touch functionality was disabled when the car was in motion).

  And for HVAC controls, again, Mazdas never did integrate HVAC into the screen.

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