Despite attempts to reduce driver distraction by enabling select voice commands to activate things like the air conditioning or change a radio station,
You know what worked great and didn’t distract?
Haptic buttons and knobs.
I don’t know what I can buy when my current car dies. I don’t want all this shit again.
My car has voice commands but it can’t even do simple tasks like turning on the headlights or wipers, and requires an active internet connection to do anything at all, so yeah, its fuckin useless.
Meanwhile my phone can dictate entire paragraphs with no internet connection at all.
Yeah it’s total dogshit. Th e only decent-ish, half-assed solution for me is using android auto (with a dedicated, isolated phone with a dummy account).
Using my own voice-command-app and sygic for navigation. Of course I couldn’t control much of the car, only what odb offers.
But I’m not locked in to the proprietary car-shit. Had that once with a fucking “premium” brand’s top-model and was so pissed at it. Even cars got enshittified.
Funny: android auto forces me to make pauses while using it “for my safety”, but it’s shit crap that forces me to use damn touchscreens in a car. While driving. Also according to AA, passengers don’t exist 😁
You know what worked great and didn’t distract? Haptic buttons and knobs.
Funny that you used a Star Trek pic for illustration.
On Captain Picard’s “Enterprise” they had plain empty black glass plates on their “control desks” for steering. All the colorful blinking imaginary things were made later in post production.
I actually did not know nor ever noticed in TNG. Now I will eagle-eye that the next run 😁
Though, if I were bound to a screen to do the things and the whole ship is steady in flight, touch would be fine. But in a car, where I need to focus on everything around me EXCEPT the touchscreen, well…
You know what worked great and didn’t distract? Haptic buttons and knobs. I don’t know what I can buy when my current car dies. I don’t want all this shit again.
My car has voice commands but it can’t even do simple tasks like turning on the headlights or wipers, and requires an active internet connection to do anything at all, so yeah, its fuckin useless.
Meanwhile my phone can dictate entire paragraphs with no internet connection at all.
Yeah it’s total dogshit. Th e only decent-ish, half-assed solution for me is using android auto (with a dedicated, isolated phone with a dummy account). Using my own voice-command-app and sygic for navigation. Of course I couldn’t control much of the car, only what odb offers.
But I’m not locked in to the proprietary car-shit. Had that once with a fucking “premium” brand’s top-model and was so pissed at it. Even cars got enshittified.
Funny: android auto forces me to make pauses while using it “for my safety”, but it’s shit crap that forces me to use damn touchscreens in a car. While driving. Also according to AA, passengers don’t exist 😁
Just get stuff replaced. I’d rather get a new engine, transmission, chassis, and all parts replaced one by one then get a car with bullshit installed.
Funny that you used a Star Trek pic for illustration.
On Captain Picard’s “Enterprise” they had plain empty black glass plates on their “control desks” for steering. All the colorful blinking imaginary things were made later in post production.
I actually did not know nor ever noticed in TNG. Now I will eagle-eye that the next run 😁
Though, if I were bound to a screen to do the things and the whole ship is steady in flight, touch would be fine. But in a car, where I need to focus on everything around me EXCEPT the touchscreen, well…