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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

That has 5 moving parts, while a touchscreen has none. It's much easier and cheaper for the manufacturer to install the touchscreen. But instead of passing the savings to you, they probably keep it or pass it on to investors.

[–] Madeyro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But the touch screen comes with a price you pay for the UI development which is not a small amount. So while installing it might be cheaper, in the end I would argue it's more expensive.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

The screen could well be more expensive than the dial parts, but installation would be cheaper, so we'd need the numbers. The thing about software is that it's very expensive to make but selling price is as low or high as you need it to be.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Exactly.

Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.

It's far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Be nice if those savings were passed on....

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The nobs are cheaper, because you don’t need a motor changing the airflow, you just use the power of the human rotating the nob to adjust the airflow to go to the right spot

And you don’t need a cpu nor gpu

Waaay cheaper…

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The CPU and screen are already in the car for other things. No cost there. And I don't think you actually know how to make a nob.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Name a car without a cpu. Year and model. Removing cpus means you are removing much more than touchcreens.

[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or worse, they charge extra because the touch screen is a luxury product.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That depends on what badge they put on the hood. They might market a screen as luxury, but the fact is I much prefer dials myself so I'd consider dials to be luxury and I'd actually pay more for dials.