As much as they got shat on, the final generation of actual embedded electronic car dashboards have a dense compactness and customization and charm sourced from their unpretentious engineering inception, before high-level "unified glass cockpit" website design infected cars.
@SwiftOnSecurity swear to god, I do not understand this obsession with "Everything is a touch screen. Put everything into menus three-layers deep, and DO NOT offer any tactile feedback, so that the user MUST be looking at the screen while operating a multi-ton vehicle at 50+ miles an hour."
@SwiftOnSecurity there's that and there's also the LED headlight craze.
"I'm going to see you, but you? You're not going to see ANYTHING and that is NOT MY PROBLEM."
@da_667 @SwiftOnSecurity it's not just that they're LED headlights, it's that the vehicles got taller so the headlights are more directly in your eyes, *and* because regulators that limit headlight brightness picked radiometric units rather than photometric, so by going cold white they create much higher apparent brightness while staying at the same limit due to how your eyes perceive it. and at the same time the CRI/CFI are total ass, so it's piercing as fuck.
@da_667 @SwiftOnSecurity theoretically remote SLD/LEP headlights are a smart idea because you have a laser source coupled through fiber into a lightweight phosphor plate in the headlight reflector, which means you can move them in all sorts of directions very easily for adaptive headlight positioning (including dipping when the vehicle goes over a speedbump), but the existing implementations are like "CRI: 40, CT: 9000K, luminosity: YES, ALL OF IT" and it kinda sucks.
@da_667 @SwiftOnSecurity also you crack a headlight and you're out three grand for a replacement because they couple the whole thing into one module, defeating one of the major benefits of remote LEP/SLD tech.
@gsuberland @da_667 @SwiftOnSecurity also dirt/moisture on the outside of the headlight housing causes massive glare. old cars, dirty headlights were dimmer. new cars, dirty headlights are just as bright but set to broadcast mode :(
