Apparently people don’t really want to page through 5 levels of the touchscreen menu to tune the radio.
https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touch-screens-vw-porsche-nissan-hyundai.html
intercst
Apparently people don’t really want to page through 5 levels of the touchscreen menu to tune the radio.
https://slate.com/business/2023/04/cars-buttons-touch-screens-vw-porsche-nissan-hyundai.html
intercst
My current car is a 2010 Ford Focus I bought in 2013. Previous to that I was driving a 1993 Dodge Shadow. When I got in the car and looked at the dash I felt like Rip van Winkle. Ree-(explitive delted)- diculous! What if I just want to listen to the radio?
I’m a tech person but I also like to keep things simple and not make things more complicated than needed. My wife’s SUV does have a shifter like all cars I’ve driven to put it into reverse or drive, instead it just has a push button which is strange to me.
Probably a decade ago I got a new washing machine at the house I owned at that time and one day while waiting for the cycle to finish I realized the machine had 6 different “tones” to signal when the clothes are done. Now why 1 wasn’t enough beats me but it seemed like a waste of money to program this into the machine.
Actually, that isn’t new, there were cars (or maybe just one) that had push buttons for selecting gears back in the 60’s/70’s - In about 20 minutes I will remember the make and model, but I’ll forget I posted this, and wonder why I remembered that.
JimA
Push button selectors for automatic transmissions: Chrysler Corp and Rambler: late 50s into early 60s. Packard: 1956. Edsel: 1958.
Steve
Yup. My '64 Plymouth Belvedere, for one. I drove it cross country from Calif. and for about a decade in Michigan. After about 100K miles, reverse gear disappeared, so I’d park it in places where I wouldn’t need to back up. If I did get penned in, I’d get out and push the car backwards, then hop in, turn the wheel, and pull forward. This was esp. fun when I had a broken ankle and a cast throughout an entire snowy winter. Fun times.
Ah, yes! T’was good to be young.
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Yep. And then afterward, a few decades of steering column stalk transmission gear selectors. Ironically, the newer Tesla models use a stalk on the steering column to select “gear” (Drive, Reverse, Neutral).
IIRC, Saab was one of them. A friend had an old “sob” story for a car in the late 70s
Mike
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