Subj : Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
To   : Nightfox
From : paulie420
Date : Sat May 27 2023 08:35 pm

 Ni> I don't really like having a big LCD screen in a car either. I've seen
 Ni> Teslas and other cars that have a big LCD screen in the middle instead
 Ni> of the usual stereo and physical buttons, and aside from the practical
 Ni> issues with virtual buttons, I just think a big LCD screen looks odd.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I do think an LCD/virtual instrument display is cool though.  In the
 Ni> newer Mazdas, the center round instrument dial is an LCD screen, which
 Ni> shows your car speed either as an analog dial or numeric digits along
 Ni> with a display showing the car's sensors that show when it detects a car
 Ni> coming up alongside you. The display can also be configured to show
 Ni> distance in miles or kilometers.

I actually kinda like the huge screen - implementation is everything, tho; for example on the Dodgle platform with those premium large screens - I can set it up so that CarPlay takes up 1/2 of the screen, which basically makes it like a normal sized screen. The other 1/2 can be set by the user, with different templates depending on how you wanna split that 1/2 of the screen - then, Dodge lets you design the 'buttons' or featuresets that take up the bottom 1/2. 

I have a few different 'pages' setup - all w/ CarPlay on the top 1/2, and differing 'soft button' setups on the lower 1/2. It makes it really nice - I swipe for handling the audio/video, swipe for comfort, swipe for driving stats/stuff - if the vendor does a good job w/ the tech I think the bigger real estate wins out every time - unless they make you simply use what they design; no one knows me better than me.



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