Tesla touch screen contributes to crash, license suspension. 2

[ACtrafficengr]

Any reader of Norman's The Design of Everyday Things or Chiles' Inviting Disaster knows that operator error is often a result of design error. This sounds like a case in point.

A German driver was attempting to adjust his wipers with the touchscreen and drove off the road into some trees. The judge ruled he was using an electronic device and suspended his license.

While touch screens can be versatile, the lack of tactile feedback is a weakness, I think. Since you can't tell which control you're adjusting by feel, you almost have to look at it when using it. Since on some Tesla models, almost all controls are accessed by the screen, this can cause problems.

My glass has a v/c ratio of 0.5

Maybe the tyranny of Murphy is the penalty for hubris. -

http://xkcd.com/319/

 

[waross]

My infotainment radio has buttons on the steering wheel to control the volume and change the station presets up or down.
My truck has touch screen GPS built into the Infotainment center.
The touch screen is inoperable when the vehicle is moving.
However there is a button on the steering wheel that turns on the microphone for voice commands.
The whole control concept is pretty user friendly and safe.
Except for one thing that I find very distracting:
From time to time the infotainment center displays a warning that distracted driving can lead to accidents.
You can't watch the road and read the display.
That distracted driving display is the most stupidly distracting feature of the vehicle.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

 

[moon161]

Hard thing for me on the minivan, a 17 grand caravan is the hvac controls, except for the fan speed, they're near flush buttons that I just have to look down to locate.

Other car, an 82 benz 300TD, all the controls, you can locate and identify with the lights out (good thing, cause console lights are on the fixit list). No radio for the time being, cell phone on a handsfree.

Either car, the intermittent rate control is on the blinker lever.

 

[davidbeach]

2019 Camry - Everything that must be controlled now is a fixed stalk, button, dial, whatever, that I can operate without talking my eyes off the road. Changing the audio source can wait.

 

[BrianPetersen]

A quick glance to identify which button to press isn't *that* bad ... at least the button is always in the same place and always has the same function when pressed. That's not the case with a touchscreen.

My Chrysler van has the older/smaller version of Uconnect. You have to use the touchscreen (which means looking at it) to change what's playing, but certain critical functions are buttons, it has a physical volume knob, and it has redundant controls (physical buttons) on the steering wheel. A nice one is the "screen off/on" button ... a bright screen is distracting at night, one press of that button makes it go dark. It's a physical button - no digging through screens to find it.

 

[davidbeach]

Audio isn’t important, other than to turn it down. All driving functions, including defogging the windshield, must be doable entirely from muscle memory. No look, no think, just do. No touchscreen can ever get there.

 

[SnTMan]

All driving functions, including defogging the windshield, must be doable entirely from muscle memory. No look, no think, just do.

Exactly. This is why, in my opinion, even the small driving controls should be standardized across all makes.

Regards,

Mike

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand

 

[MacGyverS2000]

Haptic feedback on touch screens is a thing:

https://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/5/14185134/tanvas-touchscreen-haptic-feedback-ces-2017

But they still can't duplicate the solid division of empty space between buttons...

Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com