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.
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.
Slight tangent, but the 500e is a great, cute little town car that isn't really even all that cramped for the front seat passengers. I was considering one myself. Its pricing was a total...
Slight tangent, but the 500e is a great, cute little town car that isn't really even all that cramped for the front seat passengers.
I was considering one myself. Its pricing was a total non-starter, though. $32000US MSRP was way too much when competitors around the same price point (used or after incentives) got you way more range, power, room, faster charging, etc.
For what it is, $22000 would've been a much more palatable price.
Semi-unpopular opinion, but I'm totally here for a keyless world. I owned a Tesla for awhile before the Nazi salute, and that sold me on PaaK / RFID cards. Not the most secure systems in the...
Semi-unpopular opinion, but I'm totally here for a keyless world. I owned a Tesla for awhile before the Nazi salute, and that sold me on PaaK / RFID cards. Not the most secure systems in the world, and they have drawbacks, but the convenience was excellent to not carry keys.
My home is all keypad locks with 9v battery backups; my car is all PaaK (switched to a gross legacy maker of ICEs that has transitioned to some EVs). Not carrying keys is great. I have keys still for 5-6 various usecases, but they're not daily occurrences.
I worry about the fail state if power goes out. So at least one door needs to be manually openable. But yeah otherwise I’m down with just swiping a token for everything.
I worry about the fail state if power goes out. So at least one door needs to be manually openable. But yeah otherwise I’m down with just swiping a token for everything.
This is really cool; I love the engineering behind it, despite the fact that I'll never be able to drive one. Throughout the video, he kept asking "what problem is a touchscreen trying to solve?"...
This is really cool; I love the engineering behind it, despite the fact that I'll never be able to drive one.
Throughout the video, he kept asking "what problem is a touchscreen trying to solve?" and saying carmakers didn't know. There is an answer: cost. Single-screen vehicles massively reduce the complexity and cost of the wiring harness, and they also save a few dollars per car by not paying for or installing buttons. As we've seen, touchscreens introduce a lot of other problems (mostly for the users), but they do solve a big problem for the manufacturers. I don't think Ferrari is worried about cost, which is why they're able to do something as cool as this.
I do think the "wrist bar" on the bottom of the screen is a great idea that could easily be adapted (perhaps even DIYed) into many existing touchscreen setups.
pretty neat, overall. even though it may not trickle down, per se, i do think this is how automotive interfaces etc will end up. every generation has a bunch of really stupid, goofy shit at first....
pretty neat, overall. even though it may not trickle down, per se, i do think this is how automotive interfaces etc will end up. every generation has a bunch of really stupid, goofy shit at first.
what i think every car should have is three switches, either in the dash or by the interior light, purely so i get in ‘click click click’ and look really cool to my passenger.
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.
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.
Slight tangent, but the 500e is a great, cute little town car that isn't really even all that cramped for the front seat passengers.
I was considering one myself. Its pricing was a total non-starter, though. $32000US MSRP was way too much when competitors around the same price point (used or after incentives) got you way more range, power, room, faster charging, etc.
For what it is, $22000 would've been a much more palatable price.
Semi-unpopular opinion, but I'm totally here for a keyless world. I owned a Tesla for awhile before the Nazi salute, and that sold me on PaaK / RFID cards. Not the most secure systems in the world, and they have drawbacks, but the convenience was excellent to not carry keys.
My home is all keypad locks with 9v battery backups; my car is all PaaK (switched to a gross legacy maker of ICEs that has transitioned to some EVs). Not carrying keys is great. I have keys still for 5-6 various usecases, but they're not daily occurrences.
I worry about the fail state if power goes out. So at least one door needs to be manually openable. But yeah otherwise I’m down with just swiping a token for everything.
This is really cool; I love the engineering behind it, despite the fact that I'll never be able to drive one.
Throughout the video, he kept asking "what problem is a touchscreen trying to solve?" and saying carmakers didn't know. There is an answer: cost. Single-screen vehicles massively reduce the complexity and cost of the wiring harness, and they also save a few dollars per car by not paying for or installing buttons. As we've seen, touchscreens introduce a lot of other problems (mostly for the users), but they do solve a big problem for the manufacturers. I don't think Ferrari is worried about cost, which is why they're able to do something as cool as this.
I do think the "wrist bar" on the bottom of the screen is a great idea that could easily be adapted (perhaps even DIYed) into many existing touchscreen setups.
pretty neat, overall. even though it may not trickle down, per se, i do think this is how automotive interfaces etc will end up. every generation has a bunch of really stupid, goofy shit at first.
what i think every car should have is three switches, either in the dash or by the interior light, purely so i get in ‘click click click’ and look really cool to my passenger.