German carmakers and suppliers want to create a shared open-source platform. Reference architecture should be ready by 2025, with a production vehicle by 2030.
I loved that ‘big awkward knob’ or the ‘idrive controller’ in the BMWs, now sadly it’s gone, so I take mine and everyone else’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 you’re in, push down to select.
You can’t feel a touchscreen to find button three of five, it literally forces you to look at it to operate. So unsafe!
I loved that ‘big awkward knob’ or the ‘idrive controller’ in the BMWs, now sadly it’s gone, so I take mine and everyone else’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 you’re in, push down to select. You can’t feel a touchscreen to find button three of five, it literally forces you to look at it to operate. So unsafe!