Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
By: Digital Man to paulie420 on Thu Jun 01 2023 04:16 pm

Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
By: paulie420 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 31 2023 06:34 pm

Toyota has a VOLUME button at least, but the 4runners aren't as up-to-date IMO...

One of those volume knobs popped off on a co-worker's car (I think it as a Ford?) and it wasn't completely passive - the know was just transferring to the knob's rotation as finger swipes on the touch screen. Pretty clever solution, I thought.

Wow, I botched that edit. Let me try that again:

One of those volume knobs (attached to a big LCD screen) popped off a co-worker's car (I think it was a Ford?) and it was completely passive - the knob was just transferring the knob's rotation as finger swipes on the touch screen. Pretty clever solution, I thought. :-)
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One of those volume knobs popped off on a co-worker's car (I think it as
a Ford?) and it wasn't completely passive - the know was just
transferring to the knob's rotation as finger swipes on the touch
screen. Pretty clever solution, I thought.

Really? Thats interesting and BS at the same time!



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

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




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Digital Man wrote to paulie420 <=-

One of those volume knobs popped off on a co-worker's car (I think it
as a Ford?) and it wasn't completely passive - the know was just transferring to the knob's rotation as finger swipes on the touch
screen. Pretty clever solution, I thought. --

Until you replace the knob, I suppose you could stick your pinky finger
in the hole and turn...



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Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Fri Jun 02 2023 07:03 am

Digital Man wrote to paulie420 <=-

One of those volume knobs popped off on a co-worker's car (I think it as a Ford?) and it wasn't completely passive - the know was just transferring to the knob's rotation as finger swipes on the touch screen. Pretty clever solution, I thought. --

Until you replace the knob, I suppose you could stick your pinky finger
in the hole and turn...

That's the thing: there was no hole. You could just touch the screen (where the knob used to be) and rotate right or left and get the same effect.
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Re: Re: Physical buttons in vehicles
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Jun 02 2023 07:02 am

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

On a lot of the third-party head units, they're running Android. it's
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

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