r/SipsTea • • 9h ago

SMH Thoughts on this?

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u/burge4150 9h ago edited 3h ago

I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.

It would probably crush today.

Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop

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u/AdSquare3489 9h ago

Look at Dacia in Europe, they are exactly that. Maybe not crank windows, not sure.Ā 

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u/Bub_bele 8h ago

Iā€˜d guess electrical windows are maybe even cheaper nowadays

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u/PioneerTurtle 8h ago

That's the point tho... a touchscreen is cheaper than an interface of buttons. You write some software and mass produce 1 screen. It's cheaper than the buttons

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u/Bub_bele 6h ago

sadly yes. I like buttons

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u/fatpat 4h ago

Exactly. Fancy schmancy tech can 'evolve' all it wants, but our bodies cannot. We still have hands and fingers. We like to touch and manipulate and move physical buttons, knobs, sliders, etc. especially when driving.

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u/DubiousBrushwagg 3h ago edited 3h ago

Tactile feedback is important if you want to work controls without having to look away from the road.

When you can navigate your dash and center console by feel, you won't have to look away. Touchscreens make that entirely impossible because there is no positional feedback for the brain unless you look. Once you're past the edge of the screen, everything feels the same.

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u/ballsnbutt 54m ago

"We'll just put ALL your controls om your steering wheel and make them shitty microwave touch buttons" šŸ™„šŸ˜‚

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u/Kevin_Xland 2h ago

Yup put in 1 screen and add tons of software to justify your price hikes. The software isn't really responsible for the price hikes it's just a nice excuse they can justify it with