The nobs are cheaper, because you don’t need a motor changing the airflow, you just use the power of the human rotating the nob to adjust the airflow to go to the right spot
And you don’t need a cpu nor gpu
Waaay cheaper…
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betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That has 5 moving parts, while a touchscreen has none. It much easier and cheaper for the manufacturer to install the touchscreen. But instead of passing the savings to you, they probably keep it or pass it on to investors.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
The CPU and screen are already in the car for other things. No cost there. And I don’t think you actually know how to make a nob.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Depends on the car…
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Name a car without a processor. Year and model.
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Be nice if those savings were passed on…
AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 2 days ago
Or worse, they charge extra because the touch screen is a luxury product.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That only depends on what badge they put on the hood.
Madeyro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
But the touch screen comes with a price you pay for the UI development which is not a small amount. So while installing it might be cheaper, in the end I would argue it’s more expensive.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The screen could well be more expensive than the dial parts, but installation would be cheaper, so we’d need the numbers. The thing about software is that it’s very expensive to make but selling price is as low or high as you need it to be.