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by grassfedgeek 50 days ago
> It's ok to want to stick to the past; but don't drag others back who want to move towards the future.

Did you read the article about how Mercedes-Benz is bringing back physical controls? So in your opinion are they dragging their customers back to the past? Or are they correcting a mistake?
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CrimsonRain 50 days ago
They are doing neither. All German car companies are idiots. Years of lead compared to all other car manufacturers, threw away all of it with sheer incompetence and bureaucracy.

They saw less buttons on Tesla and tried to adopt it as a cost cutting measure instead of thinking of designing a better UX. Result is, laggy/buggy/buttonless bad ux that customers hated. So they are going back with a bad excuse. The mistake is thinking software+UX as second class in a modern car. But now they are correcting "touch screen bad" mistake. lmao.

I mean, it is no surprise. Germans in general don't know how to develop good software because to them everything is a design by committee (see CARAID).

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grassfedgeek 50 days ago
> All German car companies are idiots.

Or maybe they understand from experience that physical buttons are better? When you can't take your eyes off the road, buttons you can feel with your fingers are better. That's easy to understand, is it not?

> They saw less buttons on Tesla and tried to adopt it as a cost cutting measure

Tesla is doing it as a cost cutting measure too. Elon Musk's philosophy is "the best part is no part".

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CrimsonRain 50 days ago
That's why the steering wheel has enough buttons for things you really need during driving.

They are doing it for both, cost cutting WHILE improving UX. Only Rivian and some Chinese companies understand that.

Others did it JUST for cost cutting and result was obvious.

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