Touch screen steering is surely coming.
It will save the corporations tons of money not having to manufacture a steering wheel.
They’ll sell it as a “high tech feature” and use it as an excuse why the car is more expensive than last year
Anon predicts the future of driving
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AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Shirley having a physical steering wheel is a requirement otherwise they’d have already innovated with driving solutions before now.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Oh, there have been attempts. Joystick controls, for example, in Mercedes concepts (F 200, SL R129 Concept, Vario Research car), or in actual farming vehicles. Recently, several automakers tried yokes. For now it’s the cheapest way to make a car steer, we’ll see some funky shapes probably.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If it’s good enough for a Galaxy class, it’s good enough for my car.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Shut up, wesley
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
In the future, you will have to sit in the back seat with a VR headset on, so you can drive the vehicle with a controller in third person.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Download a Burnout revenge skin pack and I’m sold
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
‘Welcome to Kuh-rayyayayazay Taxi! Select your destination! Would you like to play either the Offspring or Bad Religion during your ride?’
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Do you enjoy the virtual joysticks on phone games? This but for steering (x) and speed (y).
And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Gyro master race. Tilt the car to turn.
uis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Whet flickstick will be used for?
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not every car is a piece of shit. Mine has a touch screen for configuring parameters I honestly don’t think you need a dedicated button for, like “lane drift alert volume” and those can only be done when the car is parked.
Everything else either has a button as well even if they had to dig deep into the plausible locations to get there, like “press the button on the end of the turn signal to disable lane centering while adaptive cruise enabled”, or it only allows voice communication while in motion, like the typing based commands for navigation.I think the only time I’ve wanted to use a setting that didn’t have a button was when I was on a stretch of freeway in traffic where I didn’t feel keen on pulling over if I could avoid it, and I got gunk on one of the radar sensors. Since it couldn’t get a coherent reading it refused to turn on cruise control since it was set to adaptive. I had to drive without cruise control for a while until I pulled into a gas station and was able to clean the gunk. The setting to disable adaptive cruise control was touchscreen only, and locked out when the vehicle was moving.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So I get what you’re saying but at least from my point of view that’s still too much unnecessary shit, mind you I think cup holders are optional but hear me out. The problem isn’t the touch screen per-se it’s everything else reliant on it cruise control, lane assist, and back up cams are all either unnecessary or in the case of the back up cams a failure of design. All a lot of folks want is a basic as shit car where the most complex thing inside of it is the door ajar light.
In many ways cars are too computerized they have so many points of failure that I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we see a generation or two being bricked because of another capacitor or CPU plague. That’s also not getting into their shitty interiors, I fucking hate my grandmother’s car but maybe Ford in particular is bad. Point is they have too much shit going on maintenance wise and frankly speaking lots of folks just want what amounts to a 2001 era car, enough electronics for maintenance while still being relatively easy to repair and replace hell for backup cams you could even have a cool popup screen.
But maybe I’m just a biased asshole who is a borderline luddite and only has really driven cars from the early 90s to 01, point is I will labatomize any new car if I am somehow forced to use one.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
everything else reliant on it cruise control, lane assist,
That’s stuff’s on buttons in many, many cars.
back up cams are all either unnecessary
They really aren’t. With thicker pillars (for better safety, but also sometimes for design purposes) the more cameras you have - the better.
You can still buy incredibly simple cars, just look at PSA, Dacia/Renault basic models or Fiats that have been in production for years. Hell, Mitsubishi ASX turns 15 and all they did was stick a big screen for a radio. Suzuki S-cross imo is the sweet spot, a small screen for 2 functions (radio/phone audio, camera) and physical controls for the rest.
Or just don’t buy new cars. I think you’d like VW Up, big selling point of it was the lack of a navigation system because they get outdated so quickly, so instead there’s just a nav holder.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So buy a car without those things, or don’t use them. It’s not like you can’t drive my car without those things, and every one of them, barring the camera for obvious reasons, is controlled by a physical button. Better yet just don’t drive. If more people took public transportation we’d be better off.
I don’t particularly want to drive. When I do, I’d prefer to have climate control, not need to crank a window, and for the car to be able to tell me someone is going to clip me when I’m backing up. No matter how small the support bars are, the driver will never have as good a view as the radar sensor mounted on the side of the rear bumper.
Backup cams aren’t a solution to a design that limits visibility, they’re a solution to “most people won’t turn their heads when backing up”. People like their necks more than they like their neighbors kids.
It’s one thing to say that you want a no-frills car, and another entirely to say that car design peaked 30 years ago, and even further than that if you want a car that isn’t impacted by electronic component failure.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Before that, self driving will become good, and they’ll ban manual driving except for rural and remote areas.
Zron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
self driving will become good
As soon as there are self driving delivery trucks, I’m becoming a road pirate
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think your chances would be better against a human driver. Once these are fully automated they will have about 20 cameras covering every angle possible.
uis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Import some commies, they know how to build good public transport.
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And screens have become popular because people think they’re fancy, hi-tech, expensive. But ironically they’re cheap and nasty. They are much cheaper to make than haptics, knobs, dials, etc.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I think those old toyota and saab (orange or green is best) screens are nicer to look at than most new ones. Btw have any automakers even tried going above 60hz refresh rates? lol
festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
honestly i’ll be surprised if they even go above 30hz
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That is very much changing, in my view, in large part because actual luxury vehicles are sticking with physical controls.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Enshittification of automobiles