Daily Archives: 2024-03-04

Article note: Good.

Enlarge / A car's hazard warning lights will need a physical control to get a five-star EuroNCAP score in 2026.

Some progress in the automotive industry is laudable. Cars are safer than ever and more efficient, too. But there are other changes we'd happily leave by the side of the road. That glossy "piano black" trim that's been overused the last few years, for starters. And the industry's overreliance on touchscreens for functions that used to be discrete controls. Well, the automotive safety organization European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) feels the same way about that last one, and it says the controls ought to change in 2026.

"The overuse of touchscreens is an industry-wide problem, with almost every vehicle-maker moving key controls onto central touchscreens, obliging drivers to take their eyes off the road and raising the risk of distraction crashes," said Matthew Avery, Euro NCAP's director of strategic development.

"New Euro NCAP tests due in 2026 will encourage manufacturers to use separate, physical controls for basic functions in an intuitive manner, limiting eyes-off-road time and therefore promoting safer driving," he said.

Article note: Shit. Not so much because of Yuzu specifically, but because it will embolden attacks on emulation.

Article note: From the people who brought you the legal/artificial "You can't use consumer GPUs in data-centers" license restriction, a legal/artificial "You can't port our stack to other hardware, or even inspect it's behavior." license restriction. Nvidia must be getting nervous about their moat shrinking as people move to higher level languages for most accelerator-driven code. As much as the solution is "Keep getting off of CUDA," it's still a dick move.