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Why Jony Ive put buttons in the electric Ferrari

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    NaraVara
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    Lots of cool ideas here. Unfortunately some of it is going to be annoyingly expensive and a pain in the ass to fix if it breaks, which is fine for a Ferrari but will never trickle down to a Fiat....

    Lots of cool ideas here. Unfortunately some of it is going to be annoyingly expensive and a pain in the ass to fix if it breaks, which is fine for a Ferrari but will never trickle down to a Fiat. But I love the choices of buttons and dials and switches across the board. The key concept is also great, though I think it’s very silly that every car keys is the size of a fucking Duplo block nowadays. They could have achieved the same effect with a normal key-sized-key.

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    1. Markrs240b
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      Interestingly, the Fiat 500e was something I was considering for a while primarily because despite being a relatively inexpensive electric car it had tons of physical buttons (though they're made...

      Interestingly, the Fiat 500e was something I was considering for a while primarily because despite being a relatively inexpensive electric car it had tons of physical buttons (though they're made of plastic, not glass or aluminum).

      I certainly hope that more car makers repent of their single-screen ways and add buttons and switches back into their designs.

      Instead of the 500e I ended up getting a motorcycle. Still gas, but more fun and still super cheap to operate.

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