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Automobile Dashboard Technology is Simply Awful

posted by chromas on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:55AM   
from the tactile-response-is-for-knobs dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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• Re:New car models are not... (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday April 12 2018, @08:20AM

  by c0lo (156) on Thursday April 12 2018, @08:20AM (#665799) Journal

  Yeah, I can wait the news about how people in the regional areas cannot get the messages from the local fire authority because all they have in the car is a digital streaming radio version of a receiver.

  Not so funny moments due to reliance on the modern tech [abc.net.au]

  Macarthur Country Fire Authority (CFA) deputy group officer Hugh McFarlane said the problem came to a head in Victoria on Saturday night when fire raced through farmland near Gazette, Macarthur, Penshurst and Hawkesdale, destroying three homes.

  He said the bad phone service could have cost lives.

  "It [takes] three or four phone calls on average to get through to a number," Mr McFarlane said.
  ...
  Mr McFarlane said on Saturday night he and a colleague made about 90 phone calls, but it took almost 300 attempts for those 90 calls to get through.

  "We've had bad phone service here for the last six to eight months," he said.

  "You make a phone call and it tells you the number's been disconnected [or calls] will ring out and won't go to message bank.

  "Sometimes you can make up to seven or eight calls before you get through to a number."

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

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