- Hyundai is slowly backing away from the all-screen approach to interior design.
- Hyundai Design North America Vice President Ha Hak-soo said that people “get stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so.”
Hyundai is listening to what consumers want much more readily than other manufacturers, and their body designs strike an incredible balance between modern familiarity and retrofuturism. It’s almost exactly what I want from a new vehicle, other than the fact that they use all the same forced telemetry that other brands are using.
They’re also offering a great spread of electric AND hybrid vehicles to satisfy consumers worried about charger availability as well as consumers worried about the impact of gasoline-powered vehicles.
I won’t be surprised if they continue to increase their market share for a long time to come. If only privacy concerns were as common among the broader population as they seem to be here in the Fediverse, then maybe they might address those issues as well and be a no-brainer purchase.
More importantly, they are dangerous.
I just put on full self driving while I mess with the touchscreen. I’ve only hit 4 toddlers max in the last couple weeks.
Ah, the mythical Democrat 4th trimester abortion.
Good. This should be forced via regulations. Touchscreen controls are provably more dangerous than buttons due to the distraction.
Haptic feedback like knob clicks or button presses are much easier to use without taking eyes off the road as often.
Don’t you still have to look at it to find it first? Edit: sorry i thought you were talking about touch screens
No. All the knobs are in roughly the same area, so you can find and manipulate them by touch without looking.
Some have tactile markings for location reference, like keyboars have
I regularly manipulate my 2008 Toyota matrix’s radio and HVAC controls while never taking my eyes off the road. I won’t buy any car that forgoes the physical controls.
Even if you have to look at it first, once on it you can go by feel where as i find i struggle to do the same on a fully touch control.
You can wave your hand at a dial and find it easily just by touch
Shhh, don’t call it “haptic feedback” or they might make them flat, unmoving buttons that have a vibration motor behind them.
They already have started doing that
I got a new BMW 5 series as a loaner a few weeks back and it had that shit all over. I’m happy with my 2020, thanks BMW.
I’m sure Trump and his new auto industry advisor, Elon Musk, will get right on that. 😔
And Lina Khan will be right there!
Oh, yeah!
That’s going to be a whole thing soon. Yay.
Hyundai Design North America Vice President Ha Hak-soo said that people “get stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so.”
How many years it took them to figure it out?
Probably 10 minutes, but by that point they had to double down for the shareholders and as long as everyone copied, they were good.
bet this will be a premium feature.
Got a Tucson to test for a few weeks. I was delighted to give it back. It was infuriating to use, the glass slab caught every light and felt like it was at 103% of the perfect distance everywhere I needed to touch.
The worst thing about modern cars though, outside of the sim card live locations and data scraping, is the safety message on start up that needs confirmation and the fucking safety pause on android auto. I hate it.
Had a loaner Ford edge with the giant PITA display. Want to adjust the temperature? You have to look way down at the bottom and then slide the adjuster !!!SLiDE your fucking finger in a small area!!! Sooooo fucking stupid! And it is three taps to turn pretty much anything on. Just give me dials and switches.
I once rented a Mini Countryman and was pleasantly surprised by the highly tactile switches they use. They felt like aircraft switches in that they had weight and springy resistance to them. Much better than all this touchscreen nonsense.
To me it’s about balance and design. I’ve been in cars with too many physical buttons and those can be a distraction too.
This is true. I mean who ever needed the ability to dial a phone number manually from the dashboard? Among others.
As a 90s kid I’m incredibly good at T9 text input, which is what I use the phone buttons in my car for
GM loves it’s damned buttons. Their new cars look like a piano.
My current car has a fairly large screen for media, gps, and some other in depth settings that don’t need to be addressed while driving.
The rest is physical buttons and I honestly really like that hybrid approach to this.
Yeah, I’m fine with touchscreen for infotainment and navigation shit - as long as they give me a physical volume knob. HVAC and lighting and such should all be physical switches/buttons/knobs.
I think, in general, the shift to having MOST functions be on the touchscreen is a good one.
When driving? You should generally only be futzing with (off the top of my head):
- Windshield wipers
- Climate control
- Not the music but let’s be honest here
- Turn signals and headlights
And the rest make perfect sense to keep behind menus you deal with when you are parked. And with modern cars, climate control stops being about balancing the knobs and becomes about setting the preferred temperature and MAYBE tapping the defrost/circultaion button. Which actually also makes sense to not need direct button access.
But yeah. Still 100% need physical buttons and knobs for the rest.
I think it is Subaru who have the big display screen and then a small row of dedicated buttons below it?
Invalid opinion. There’s still time to delete this.
Windows? Gears? Seat? Mirrors?
You should not be touching your mirrors or seat while driving. That is what you do before you leave the parking space (… or at a red light).
Good call on the windows and gear (although… there are arguments that you don’t need to in an automatic) though. Forgot we live in a world where teslas are street legal.
If I’m being blinded by the car behind me and I can’t pull off to let them pass I’m adjusting the mirrors.
Pffft they’re doing it because the EU is going to force this in a year or two, I bet
The bathrooms in hell all have automatic sinks where you can’t tell where the sensor is and an inconsistent delay.
I was in an airport bathroom and somehow the auto soap dispenser managed to squirt soap into my open cup of coffee. Fuck those things.
this is disgusting I’d rather have soap in my coffee then take an open cup into the bathroom. I’d say that the dispenser is justified in its actions
I was pouring rum into it.
that’s even more disgusting why would you ejaculate into your own coffee
I have questions about why you’d take an open cup of coffee into a public bathroom.
It was one of those one person family bathrooms. I had a 3 hour wait and a bottle of rum.
Exactly, where was the coffee whilst the poster was using the toilet?
There’s a nasty little goblin of a bloke where I work. Toilets for all offices on the floor. He takes phone AND coffee. Splashes everywhere, doesn’t flush.
I’d like to flush him instead.
Because the people at the coffee stand complained when I tried taking a shit there.
Tbf they only complain about the removing your pants part. Keep your pants up, and you can take a shit there before they complain about the smell.
Also the faucet hole is 1 centimeter from the back edge of the sink.
Good. Can every other company please do this too??
Just make it a good amount of buttons. Not 500 that all look and feel the same. And it’ll be alright. My car is old and has very few buttons. Plus a radio and 3 large knobs to control the AC. I think that’s the best concept. I don’t even have to look at them most of the times, because it’s not that many similar ones.
“Annoying”, “serious safety hazard”, safe difference, right?
