Problem is, they look cool, so once the technology arrived to make them real, everyone went overboard.
Isn’t the problem they’re also cheaper in real life? Like in the car industry the only benefit is that it’s saving time and money for the manufacturer.
You just need one touch screen that does everything. Radio, climate control, navigation, car settings etc etc. even with cheap nobs you needed separate ones for everything, you needed the mounting for them and everything you can’t see behind them. It might not be cheaper than replacing one thing, but once you combine everything into it it becomes cheaper.
I HATE the automation in my '14 Lincoln. The environment control use ambient temperature settings. So if it’s hot as balls inside the car and you set the temp to 68, it’ll blast some cold air until it detects that temp, then start spitting “room temperature” air which is absolutely miserable in the dead ass middle of summer.
Give me back a knob with controls the temperature of air it’s spitting out! Which means if the AC at Max starts getting too cold then I’ll turn the knob a click or 2.
Isn’t the problem they’re also cheaper in real life? Like in the car industry the only benefit is that it’s saving time and money for the manufacturer.
Given how cheap and nasty every craptastic plastic control is in every ‘cheap’ car I’ve had: I doubt it.
Everything goes stupid when you’re getting luxury or premium models. E.g. standard wheels are way cheaper than alloy wheels.
You just need one touch screen that does everything. Radio, climate control, navigation, car settings etc etc. even with cheap nobs you needed separate ones for everything, you needed the mounting for them and everything you can’t see behind them. It might not be cheaper than replacing one thing, but once you combine everything into it it becomes cheaper.
I HATE the automation in my '14 Lincoln. The environment control use ambient temperature settings. So if it’s hot as balls inside the car and you set the temp to 68, it’ll blast some cold air until it detects that temp, then start spitting “room temperature” air which is absolutely miserable in the dead ass middle of summer.
Give me back a knob with controls the temperature of air it’s spitting out! Which means if the AC at Max starts getting too cold then I’ll turn the knob a click or 2.
Indeed. It might not be cheaper to manufacture, it might just be cheaper to assemble.