Re: Please Stop
Noooooooo! There's way too much distraction in the cab already. Anything that requires you to look away from the road is *dangerous*. There's too much designeritis even on the physical controls now. Knobs that rotate endlessly to change volume/fan speed/temperature, likewise up/down buttons that mean you have to look at the readout you're upping or downing. At least the Japanese manufacturers still have their heads screwed on right, so their cars feature knobs with hard stops and tactile clicks. In the US the designers have, as usual, gone overboard (probably over the objections of the engineers) in the fruitless pursuit of coolness. Giving them touch screens to play with is a literally fatal mistake.
Accidents are up these past few years. Distraction is being blamed: mostly phones yes, but what about the dash controls? Auto makers are curiously silent on the subject.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
