I hate touch screen controls in cars for things that are adjusted during driving like everyone else here. But please let’s not go for a default of „the state has to allow it“ for all new inventions - as dumb as they may be.
What is there you think needs proving? People can adjust the volume knob or AC without looking. You literally cannot do this with a touchscreen.
"We got away from the physical throttles, and that was probably the number one feedback from the fleet - they said, just give us the throttles that we can use," said Rear Adm Galinis.
OP article is probably a case of the market working it out if Volkswagen is doing it without regulation. I doubt Tesla-like multi-modal touch screens are going to be default ever. They were never a good idea.
But regulation is essentially the people coming together to say "never again", and that is their right in a democracy. Like it or not as inventors or inventor-adjacent folks we might look more harshly at it. But we also have that power and I don't see a problem per se in using it to direct the market on somewhat trivial things like this.
My wife will finally be able to use my phone chargers b/c of the EU legislation on apple chargers.
That article is about controls on a military system. You make it sound as if people are steering their cars with touch controls, which they don't.
Screw overregulation, I do not want the government to assume that I am a complete idiot and regulate every single part of my life.
"Overregulation" is a squishy political term. We cancel each other out on this issue (assuming you're US-based). I'm not advocating for car controls to have regulations, but would be fine if they took sensible action. But they probably won't need to.
I think it also may not have mattered. We, as in contemporary humans, continue to devalue our attention/focus in regards to our technology. I think that’s the core problem with digital UI is they just requiring too much of our active attention where as physical knobs allow us to passively perform actions with muscle memory (low attention requirement)
If they took all the knobs and put some in the glove box and some inside the console and some in the back seat and so on… we wouldn’t consider that an invention. It would just be obvious that the knobs were difficult to access. That’s basically what they did but act like it’s fine because technically they’re still right there on the dash.
In summer 2017, the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship near the Japanese mainland in an accident that killed seven sailors. The McCain was off the coast of Singapore when it hit a container ship, killing 10 of the Navy destroyer's crew.
The report blames touch screens.
IMHO, car screens are useful to watch some telly or films during your boring commuting
yes, let's prevent regulators from applying and enforcing no brainer life saving safety regulations without first being required to spend decades studying each individual issue and then litigate each individual issue for another couple of decades, ensuring that nothing ever gets regulated ever
because that's what you're asking for, whether you realize it or not