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Originally Posted by spcmafia
Why does it seem like the just mounted a giant iPad and then just called it a day.
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Why? Easy. Because it's 1) so much cheaper than designing, engineering, and building a real instrument panel/dashboard with buttons, knobs, style, etc.; and 2) it's trendy. People see a giant iPad and think, "Oooh! Tech! Futuristic!".
But what might look gee-wizzy neato on the showroom floor might not translate as well into the real world.
I might be the only Luddite curmudgeon on this, but for me putting certain key functions exclusively into a touch screen, like heater/A/C and radio controls, is an absolute deal-breaker. Here in New England, it gets cold in the winter. We wear gloves when we drive. It's awfully hard to use a touch screen wearing gloves (and no, those fancy-shmancy haptic touch gloves aren't anywhere near as warm as the real L.L. Bean deal and don't do it for me).
I'll get on my soapbox once again and preach about how touch screens are a safety hazard. I can adjust mechanical knobs by feel, heater and radio, without taking my eyes off the road. It's hard to do that with a touch screen while hurtling down the road at 100 feet/second (at least for me it is). A lot can happen in the few seconds you have to take your eyes off the road to hunt for the right spot to poke on a touch screen.
I was thinking about a new Legacy for a while, as a possible more 'practical' replacement for my WRX as a daily driver. It was enough of a setback and gutpunch when Subaru replaced the unique naturally-aspirated 3.6 flat-6 engine with yet another ubiquitous bland 2.4 turbo-4. But I could have lived with the diminished personality of the new engine in exchange for such mundane things such as better fuel economy. But putting the heater controls exclusively in the touch-screen was an absolute non-starter. Shame on Subaru.
Then there's this:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...takes-75238906