Sounds like an expensive point of failure.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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Why not just have buttons?
The future is stupid.
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
I'm not in the market for a new car, but how about features that enhance operator focus, and reduce blind-spots. Less distractions.
That'll be neat when, not if, it breaks.
Everyone in this thread is haters. Yeah it's expensive, yeah it'll probably break easy, but damn that's actually a pretty cool gizmo to have. Not remotely practical, but that shit at least qualifies as "kinda sick"
Expensive, failure prone, impractical tech counts as shit.