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/
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(Score: 2) by toddestan on Friday April 13 2018, @01:01AM
Another problem that's common is for reason a lot of cars have bits of chrome (actually, cheap nasty plastic that looks like chrome) splattered all over the dash. Which of course means on a bright sunny day, you've got reflections of the sun blinding you too.
Besides, the dashboards on a lot of newer cars is just plain tacky. Most of them look like a jukebox crossed with a gaming PC from 10 years ago and one of the Aiwa stereos from about 2000.