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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the knob to control everything was a big reason why developing for the emulator sucked. With the emulator you could just click on buttons and links, where in the real thing the users would be stuck with an awkward knob they'd turn to select stuff.

[โ€“] waz@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

I loved that โ€˜big awkward knobโ€™ or the โ€˜idrive controllerโ€™ in the BMWs, now sadly itโ€™s gone, so I take mine and everyone elseโ€™s life in my hands to zoom in or out on navigation, or to find a setting the car insists is default and I have to opt out of on every single journey. Knob, reach down, without taking eyes off road, feel the position, click turn idents to know how many menu levels youโ€™re in, push down to select. You canโ€™t feel a touchscreen to find button three of five, it literally forces you to look at it to operate. So unsafe!