{"id":10697,"date":"2020-03-31T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5b5454039ae85ecf7c288fabaa305b58"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:52:14","slug":"honda-bucks-industry-trend-by-removing-touchscreen-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=10697","title":{"rendered":"Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/131605\/honda-bucks-industry-trend-by-removing-touchscreen-controls\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Touchscreens have always been a UX disaster, at least we're finally having to admit it and change course because touchscreen suck is _literally killing people_ in cars (and Naval controls the US DOD got taken on).<\/div><blockquote><p>Honda has done what no other car maker is doing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/motor-shows-geneva-motor-show\/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned to analogue controls<\/a> for some functions on the new Honda Jazz.<\/p><p>While most manufacturers are moving to touchscreen controls, identifying smartphone use as their inspiration &ndash; most recently seen in Audi&rsquo;s latest A3 &ndash; Honda has decided to reintroduce heating and air conditioning controls via a  dial rather than touchscreen, as in the previous-generation Jazz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike what the introduction states, Honda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/130154\/why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joins fellow Japanese car maker Mazda<\/a> in not just blindly using touchscreens for everything inside cars. This is a good move, and definitely takes some guts, since I&rsquo;ve seen countless car reviewers &ndash; including my standout favourite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doug DeMuro<\/a> &ndash; kind of blindly assuming that any car without 100% touchscreen control is outdated, without questioning the safety consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good on Honda.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honda has done what no other car maker is doing, and returned to analogue controls for some functio&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=10697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}