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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
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:48PM
I actually swapped all of the dash lights out of my car shortly after buying it. The dash plates were silver and the lights and needles were orange so right at sunset the glare from the sun made the dashboard completely invisible. I swapped them to green because regardless of the time of day or lighting conditions it stuck out from the background. It also made the red and orange notification lights on the dash far more noticeable.