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   W6KME (w6kme@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 08:19:32 JST W6KME

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   • James

   @ukuku We went for a 2019 Subaru, and all of the climate controls are old-fashioned knobs. Every last one of them. Everything you might need to fiddle with can be done without taking your eyes off the road. It's glorious.

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     James (ukuku@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 08:19:33 JST James

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     @W6KME my Chevy Bolt alllllmost gets it right, but half the AC controls are on the touchscreen and the others are physical. Don’t like that. You can’t control the AC until the screen boots up.

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     W6KME (w6kme@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 08:19:34 JST W6KME

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     @ukuku

     In our 2013 Ford, I have to stop the car to mess with changing the temp on the climate control, because the tiny touch sensitive areas are impossible to see and give no haptic feedback.

     We just passed on a new Subaru, since too many functions are performed with a touch screen now, requiring eyes-off-road driving. This is bad.

     We spent a century evolving dashboards that *worked*. Now we're mollified by shiny objects, and no longer care about function. Carmakers clearly don't either.

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     James (ukuku@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 08:19:35 JST James

     Too much damn techno nonsense in the new Mini EV. I want an almost completely analog EV. Lot of physical switches, touch screen optional.

     https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/2/23856781/mini-cooper-2025-e-se-ev-redesign-oled-touchscreen