{"id":94,"date":"2014-05-08T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickhealey.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:28:02","slug":"an-idea-for-a-car-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"An idea for a car UI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I’m sure it’s been done, but why not mount your screen in the middle of the steering wheel?<\/p>\n

This isn’t a touchscreen, by the way – it’s operated by four buttons down each side (remember the Nokia 9100?) – at any time there are different options (words on the screen) by each button.<\/p>\n

So, you don’t have to take your hands off the wheel, wave your hand in mid-air, and attempt (and often fail) to touch an icon on a touchscreen. Just use your thumbs.<\/p>\n

And your eyes are as little removed as possible from the action in front of you. In fact, most activities would just be muscle memory from your thumbs – you wouldn’t have to take your eyes off the road *at all* to tap the sequence of button that means (say) “Main Menu” – “Radio” – “Preset 3”.<\/p>\n

(You can make a case for the screen & buttons rotating with the wheel as you turn it, or staying put – either would be fine though.)<\/p>\n

So: eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, and no mis-types. What’s not to like?<\/p>\n

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So, I’m sure it’s been done, but why not mount your screen in the middle of the steering wheel? This isn’t a touchscreen, by the way – it’s operated by four buttons down each side (remember the Nokia 9100?) – at any time there are different options (words on the screen) by each button. So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickhealey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}