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Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know what worked great and didn't distract? Haptic buttons and knobs.

Funny that you used a Star Trek pic for illustration.

On Captain Picard's "Enterprise" they had plain empty black glass plates on their "control desks" for steering. All the colorful blinking imaginary things were made later in post production.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I actually did not know nor ever noticed in TNG. Now I will eagle-eye that the next run 😁

Though, if I were bound to a screen to do the things and the whole ship is steady in flight, touch would be fine. But in a car, where I need to focus on everything around me EXCEPT the touchscreen, well...