Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly' | TechCrunch
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The trend of big touchscreens in cars has left many yearning for the not-so-distant days when most user interactions happened with physical buttons. But
  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    AI is supposed to allow such a powerful experience that buttons are irrelevant, and it should know your preferences so well that just saying “I’m hungry” will get you the proper personalized experience.

    No, that’s dumb. I don’t want a relationship with my car, I want my car to get me from one place to another. I don’t want to remember the secret phrase to turn on the windshield wipers. I don’t want the car to assume that I want to go to McDonald’s cause that’s the company that paid for the “I’m hungry” trigger this month.

    This is an excuse for why they don’t have android auto and car play. Just let the entertainment screen do only that and leave the driving things to the buttons.

    • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      No kidding. Don’t forget the part they aren’t saying out loud, where they harvest all of your behaviour in car and then sell it to advertisers or other companies. Squirming around in your seat too much, prepare for a targeted ad for Preparation H.

      I don’t want an in-car assistant. "Bensaid also said he’s a big believer in the ability of AI-powered voice controls to handle complex requests. For instance, he said if a driver says “I’m hungry” the in-car assistant should be able to quickly direct them to a nearby restaurant that they might prefer. " It’s like these people saw Wall-E and took it as an example of a desired future.

      • huskypenguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Voice assistants haven’t worked for 8 years, why would they start now? Buttons, on the other hand, have worked fine this entire time.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Yeah offer it as an option, if it’s as good as they say people will choose it. This is the sort of thing trim packages are for

  • superkretEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Fun fact: When the electric push button was invented, people worried that it would make human skills atrophy. They wondered if such devices would seal off the wonders of technology into a black box: “effortless, opaque, and therefore unquestioned by consumers.”

    Companies promoted them with slogans like “You press the button, we do the rest”

    https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked/