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[Icey]

What is a touchscreen?

A screen….that you touch?

[Gaz66]

a point on tesla voice commands love the butt hole one but you can tell interface is american, what happened to the good old english bottom

Thankfully Tesla does recognise that we’re not all American and will accept arse, bum or bottom as an alternative to butt.

When I collected the car in August last year voice commands were virtually useless unless you could muster a semi decent American accent, then a few months later an over the air update added British English. Now it’s impressively good even following complicated nav destinations and Google searches.

I bet Tesla's struggle with a Yorkshire, Glaswegian or Geordie accent. 🤣

[sonscar]

We used to have a touchscreen in our front room.The children would constantly touch the bottom two inches of it with their sticky fingers.
My view is if you allow touch screens and ever larger displays in cars you may as well allow mobile phones as well.Steve..

[stuart bowes]

I see no issue with someone quickly touching their phone viewing messages or dialing a number while stopped (at lights, or even in really slow moving traffic I suppose.. but where do you draw the line) same goes for adjusting settings on any screen whether fixed in place or not 

 

it's when someone tries to do it while driving along and not concentrating on what's going on in front of them, it's risking the lives of other people (and their own of course but that's a secondary consideration) And in fairness my screen (and probably all others) does say when you turn it on, do not operate when driving

 

the problem is you have to make one rule for everyone and it has to allow for complete morons who can't manage to drive, operate a screen, and remember to breathe in and out all at the same time without accidentally killing someone

Edited by stuart bowes, 30 November 2023 - 12:51 PM.

[panky]

Did someone mention stalkless controls

 

 

 

The light switch positions are a thing dreamed up in a nightmare

Edited by panky, 30 November 2023 - 06:55 PM.

[stuart bowes]

I'm guessing that tape deck doesn't register voice commands

Or if it does you have to shout in French

 

MON DERRIER EST FROID!   MON DERRIER..

 

Edited by stuart bowes, 30 November 2023 - 07:26 PM.

[panky]

You should wear thicker pants    

 

Unfortunately the tape deck doesn't register and commands voice or finger  Must fix it

Edited by panky, 30 November 2023 - 11:03 PM.

[stuart bowes]

assuming of course you have tapes to actually put in it.. rummages around in loft.. 

 

I'd just pull it and stick something bluetoothy in it's place that's just me though

[Steam]

Like vinyl before it cassettes tapes are back in fashion and set to be the next must have item.
£#€& knows why, the were awful even when new.

[mab01uk]

Voice commands may or may not work depending on how well it has been setup to understand local accents, etc BUT a touchscreen relies entirely on the eyes to use owing to the lack of any tactile feedback. Therefore you have to take your eyes off the road at some point as you do with a smart phone, which is why drivers are banned from touching phones while driving or must use hands free.

Edited by mab01uk, 01 December 2023 - 09:43 AM.

[bpirie1000]

My 1961 mini has voice commands...

I tell my passenger to do something and they do it....

No voltage wasted nor amps needed....

[Designer]

My 1961 mini has voice commands...

I tell my passenger to do something and they do it....

No voltage wasted nor amps needed....

 

My 1961 mini has voice commands...

I tell my passenger to do something and they do it....

No voltage wasted nor amps needed....

 

 

All very well but surely the resulting slap across the face causes the eyes to wander from seeing where you are going, if not that the smarting of the eyes blurring your vision.

 

Very dangerous.

 

Definitely a case for NO hands free .        

[Bobbins]

 

My 1961 mini has voice commands...

I tell my passenger to do something and they do it....

No voltage wasted nor amps needed....

 

My 1961 mini has voice commands...

I tell my passenger to do something and they do it....

No voltage wasted nor amps needed....

 

 

All very well but surely the resulting slap across the face causes the eyes to wander from seeing where you are going, if not that the smarting of the eyes blurring your vision.

 

Very dangerous.

 

Definitely a case for NO hands free .        

 

 

I'm sure Jim Morrison mentioned something like that!

[unburntfuelinthemorning]

I always thought the move away from toggle or rocker switches to push button switches in the 1970s to 1980s was a bad move.  With a toggle or rocker switch you could tell if it was on or off by the position of the switch.  Not so with buttons which return to the same position when on or off.  Touchscreens are a continuation of this stupidity.

[sledgehammer]

Up to recently , I have been having to ferry a lot of new cars & vans around

 

all the controls are different , if you are driving the same car day in day out it is not so bad

 

But going from Volvo's to Range Rovers to Jags ,  Seats to Fords then Nissans is a nightmare

 

also some cars have radio's that get louder at 20 mph , some have heated seats that switch off thru a menu

 

high end Range Rovers , have auto brake & Park , if someone is near the vehicle , and won't start unless you have seat belt on ,

 

both which are a nightmare maneuvering in a workshop 

Start buttons , gear selectors & hand brakes are also all over the place

Parking sensors on one car screaming at you when a yard away from another car , another hardly a murmur when inches away .

I just wish they got together and agreed on similar controls

Not the fun it could be