If your device needs printed instructions for basic should-be-obvious operations, your user interface design is defective. (This is a Tesla showroom.)
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@Flittermouse I know Kubrick and his team were playing a very good point for laughs, but there's no way in hell you can convince me that the zero g toilet instructions in "2001: A Space Odyssey" aren't a massive user interface failure. (What about blind/dyslexic users? Children? Non-anglophones? And that horrible typeface. Just for starters!)
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@TimWardCam @cstross @mort
My 2013 five-gear manual Corolla has 470k on the odometer. I'll be soon looking to, reluctantly, replace it. Any suggestions on the lowest-tech car available?
@quoidian @TimWardCam @mort I no longer drive, but I'd recommend avoiding anything recent enough to have Google or Apple car integration—and definitely avoid anything with a touchscreen, they're actively dangerous (requiring the driver to look away from the road to operate controls is a BAD THING).
@cstross @TimWardCam @mort
I had the misfortune to argue with a deer in 2020 and so needed a 'courtesy vehicle' for a week.
I have a clear list from that SUV what I don't want in a vehicle and the distracting display screen is on top.
@quoidian @TimWardCam @mort I would make a qualified exception for a reversing camera display that delivers satellite navigation stuff when not in reverse gear.
But it needs to be a *display*, not an input touchscreen.
@cstross @TimWardCam @mort
My youngest has a cracked neck vertibra and, when I visited, I was happy to see he had a backup camera in his SUV. But if the price of having it is having nobs replaced by a touchscreen, then no.
@quoidian @TimWardCam @mort The in-car touchscreen controls are there to save the manufacturer's bill of materials. Knobs are custom injection-molded bits of plastic, so individual cost items. Touchscreens are surprisingly cheap in comparison to 20-30 knobs/dials ...
@cstross i'm no tesla fan, but i think the purpose of this is different and deliberate -- make the owners feel good for knowing how to open the door, unlike the dumb n00bs who can't even open the door … doesn't that fit what you'd expect from elon's tesla?
@cstross What baffles me is that Hyundai makes a much better and comparably priced electric sedan, the Ioniq6, but the Tesla Model 3 outsells it in the U .S. by about 10 to 1. Madness.
@cstross do they also provide instructions for the "3 shells" ? 😅
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Oh, Teslas are fucking death traps.
@cstross while this is bad, my favorite of these was the BMW i8. There was a video of a a training session for sales people at a BMW sales room. If someone asked to see the engine bay, only a factory trained technician was allowed to open it.
1. You needed a special tool 2. Open driver side door 3. Put tool in hole in door jam, grab hook and slightly pull 4. Repeat on passenger door 5. With two people lift hood 1.5 inches vertically. 6. Tilt hood from towards the front upto 45 degrees.
@cstross I've been half-arsedly looking at 2nd hand cars as my car needs replacing this year. Every lot I've been to, the Teslas are the ones with misted windows in the cold. Not that I'd buy one.
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