I’ve spent a lot of my career amidst / adjacent to ergonomics experts and I have a feeling you’re 100% correct here. Industrial designers talk a lot about external and internal conventions and I’d wager this is one.
For the last couple decades car manufacturers have been doing everything they can get away with to remove standard typical controls from cars. Put everything in the touch screen. Stalkless column. Let’s win the award for least comprehensible gear shifter this year.
Like didn’t the guy who played Chekov in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek fanfic die under the wheels of his SUV because the gear shifter was confusing?
I’ve spent a lot of my career amidst / adjacent to ergonomics experts and I have a feeling you’re 100% correct here. Industrial designers talk a lot about external and internal conventions and I’d wager this is one.
For the last couple decades car manufacturers have been doing everything they can get away with to remove standard typical controls from cars. Put everything in the touch screen. Stalkless column. Let’s win the award for least comprehensible gear shifter this year.
Like didn’t the guy who played Chekov in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek fanfic die under the wheels of his SUV because the gear shifter was confusing?
We should be regulating this stuff more strictly.