Subj : Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jun 02 2023 07:23 pm

  Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Jun 02 2023 07:02 am

 Ni>> I'm curious how they'd change the layout of some of these touch
 Ni>> panels? In some cars I've seen lately, it's just a flat
 Ni>> touch-sensitive area in a fixed place where a physical button/knob
 Ni>> would be.  For instance: 

 PF> On a lot of the third-party head units, they're running Android. it's
 PF> just a home screen app you're looking at.

It's not just the radio head unit, but in other places around the dashboard, as well as steering wheel controls for the radio, etc., they're using flat touch-sensitive surfaces in place of physical buttons & switches.  For example:

https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Nissan-Ariya-1024x555.jpg

https://tinyurl.com/2s3m638k

https://shorturl.at/BDW59

https://tinyurl.com/yc8xhmbe

Nightfox
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