https://carbuzz.com/news/mazda-develops-holographic-controls-to-replace-buttons
What are ur thoughts on this? This is a way to replace hard buttons.
No thanks, sounds awful.
Just more electronic junk like infomation screens and lane assist, AFM and GDI that never seem to stay working for any usable length of time. When it doesn't work, the dealer looks at you and says "That's normal."
When it doesn't work, the dealer looks at you and says "That's normal."
Thing is, he may be telling the truth.
I want my car to have tactile feedback.
Even todays modern touchscreen interfaces frustrate me, because I have to look to touch.
that depends on their systems. Toyota and Lexus used to make terrible infotainment systems IMO, but the new ones shown in the new Lexus NX and Tundra is really good from what I hear and the UI is great. Also, even tho Audi and BMW are considered "money pit" brands here in NA, they also make great infotainment systems that are touchscreen and are responsive and easy to use.
@infinitifxfan It's still a touch screen - even if it's simple you have to look at it... Touch screens can't ever match well laid out physical buttons.
On my good old Volvo - each button had it's own shape and I never have to look at the buttons
But a good UI on a big screen is probably better then modern cheaply made systems... when the buttons are the size of a fingernail and they're way too close to each-other and way to mushy to know if you actually have pressed anything...
That's great. They should also come with a warning sticker the size of the entire back of the car to alert other drivers that the operator in front of them is no longer looking at the road but instead at a screen.
"Yes Officer, I did rear end him, but it's not my fault, My touchscreen was hard to see"
Touch screens are bad enough. I don’t want this garbage.
Yes! especially considering Mazda can't even make normal touchscreens. (or even gauge clusters)
Like what is that tiny ugly thing sticking out of the dash... and where's the digital speed readout...
Even purely utilitarian vehicles like Isuzu pickup trucks have already figured it out
I think the whole purpose of these so called innovation is to show off the technologies without thinking about long term reliability (The same fiele that Germans are expert) and if I'm not mistaken, Mazda was also one of the manufacturers that delete the water temperature gauge in some of the cars, just to be a bit different than normal cars.
Actually a lot of cars in the past had no temperature gauge, many just had idiot lights and would light up to tell you, too late, your engine is toast. There were even some vehicles, like the Nash Metropolitan, that had neither; you were alerted to overheating by the smoke coming out from under the hood.