Subj : Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
To   : paulie420
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat May 27 2023 17:53:01

  Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
  By: paulie420 to esc on Sat May 27 2023 03:27 pm

 pa> I'd love to see the physical buttons get LCD screens that would allow the
 pa> customer to set them to any function they want; but I don't find myself
 pa> wishing for physical buttons... they're trying.

I don't really like having a big LCD screen in a car either. I've seen Teslas and other cars that have a big LCD screen in the middle instead of the usual stereo and physical buttons, and aside from the practical issues with virtual buttons, I just think a big LCD screen looks odd.

I do think an LCD/virtual instrument display is cool though.  In the newer Mazdas, the center round instrument dial is an LCD screen, which shows your car speed either as an analog dial or numeric digits along with a display showing the car's sensors that show when it detects a car coming up alongside you. The display can also be configured to show distance in miles or kilometers.

The other gauges (tachometer, temperature, etc.) in the Mazdas are physical gauges, but I've seen other car brands (such as Volkswagens) use a full digital/virtual instrument cluster, where it might show something like a speedometer along with a GPS map display, which is cool.

Nightfox
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