So many people have mentioned their displeasure to disabling touchscreen while driving that I felt the need to post.
Back in the day, before touch screens or screens that share lots of information, everything was by touch, tactile touch. The only reason you might have to take your eyes off the road for, was just to read the time or read what station you were tuned to. It was fantastic! You could change most everything without taking your eyes off the road.
I am not a fan of the migration to everything being on a touchscreen in cars and on phones.
Things can happen on the road at anytime where you need quick reactions to avoid. I've had to avoid ladders, lawn chairs, boxes, a dead deer that was dead center in my lane at night where there was no street lights. Those are the more rare occasions, but they are expensive ones. Expensive in money, time, stress, and annoyance to deal with insurance and the repair companies, and sometimes the frustration of now paying more for insurance for the next few years.
It is easy to blame to person who dropped the item on the road, but in the end, we are responsible and most, 99% of the time, these things can be avoided with alert driving, space in front of you, and quick safe reactions.
I've had my share of close calls when touch screens were becoming more common on phones. Mine is now mounted always on my windshield, just a hair off my line of sight, visually between my steering wheel and rear view mirror. Even from there, I use voice to text for sending all messages and use it to read messages to me, and to interact with the phone.
However, I am not a fan of commands and interaction getting locked out while driving. I can't tell you how often we are driving and we want to do something, especially with the Nav, and can't do it and can't pull over because, no room to safely pull over(may get just the tires off the lane to park), not allowed to park on this road, before this sign, that sign, during blah hours.
My wife and I now use Google Navigation (her iPhone and my Android) in the truck ~75% of the time. The Navigation software has way way too many issues and things aren't getting fixed quickly enough. I can't even successfully submit corrections to the map via the HERE app or website.
Navigation software in cars has been out for > 10yrs. I don't know how car companies (all of them) can make such terrible deals with these terrible third-party software companies, model generation after model generation... Seriously, stick with the big three, TomTom, Garmin, or Google.
A little off on a tangent...
I'm a fan of completely locking out all touch screen interaction while driving and more tactile interaction and larger Heads-Up-Displays (use the whole drivers side window with info at the top, sides, and bottom).
Back in the day, before touch screens or screens that share lots of information, everything was by touch, tactile touch. The only reason you might have to take your eyes off the road for, was just to read the time or read what station you were tuned to. It was fantastic! You could change most everything without taking your eyes off the road.
I am not a fan of the migration to everything being on a touchscreen in cars and on phones.
Things can happen on the road at anytime where you need quick reactions to avoid. I've had to avoid ladders, lawn chairs, boxes, a dead deer that was dead center in my lane at night where there was no street lights. Those are the more rare occasions, but they are expensive ones. Expensive in money, time, stress, and annoyance to deal with insurance and the repair companies, and sometimes the frustration of now paying more for insurance for the next few years.
It is easy to blame to person who dropped the item on the road, but in the end, we are responsible and most, 99% of the time, these things can be avoided with alert driving, space in front of you, and quick safe reactions.
I've had my share of close calls when touch screens were becoming more common on phones. Mine is now mounted always on my windshield, just a hair off my line of sight, visually between my steering wheel and rear view mirror. Even from there, I use voice to text for sending all messages and use it to read messages to me, and to interact with the phone.
However, I am not a fan of commands and interaction getting locked out while driving. I can't tell you how often we are driving and we want to do something, especially with the Nav, and can't do it and can't pull over because, no room to safely pull over(may get just the tires off the lane to park), not allowed to park on this road, before this sign, that sign, during blah hours.
My wife and I now use Google Navigation (her iPhone and my Android) in the truck ~75% of the time. The Navigation software has way way too many issues and things aren't getting fixed quickly enough. I can't even successfully submit corrections to the map via the HERE app or website.
Navigation software in cars has been out for > 10yrs. I don't know how car companies (all of them) can make such terrible deals with these terrible third-party software companies, model generation after model generation... Seriously, stick with the big three, TomTom, Garmin, or Google.
A little off on a tangent...
I'm a fan of completely locking out all touch screen interaction while driving and more tactile interaction and larger Heads-Up-Displays (use the whole drivers side window with info at the top, sides, and bottom).