<story><title>US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>You know, I think touchscreens are not preferable unless you need&amp;#x2F;want to be able to have controls for many different systems in the same space (e.g. a smartphone with multiple apps).  If you are needing a dedicated control for a high-stakes system, the fact that it&amp;#x27;s a more modern-looking interface should not matter.  Touchscreens are inherently inferior to a mechanical interface, if it&amp;#x27;s a single-system (i.e. doesn&amp;#x27;t need to morph into a different and back again).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakear</author><text>This is why I detest touchscreens for most car functions. Specifically AC, with old fashioned knobs I have full control over AC without taking my eyes off the road, but nowadays everyone wants to put it on their infotainment system, hidden beneath 4 other buttons.</text></comment>
<story><title>US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>You know, I think touchscreens are not preferable unless you need&amp;#x2F;want to be able to have controls for many different systems in the same space (e.g. a smartphone with multiple apps).  If you are needing a dedicated control for a high-stakes system, the fact that it&amp;#x27;s a more modern-looking interface should not matter.  Touchscreens are inherently inferior to a mechanical interface, if it&amp;#x27;s a single-system (i.e. doesn&amp;#x27;t need to morph into a different and back again).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>I really think that nowadays touchscreens are becoming the cheap option. To me when I see a machine with custom designed button I know they had to do some mechanical design, whereas a flat touch screen just says &amp;quot;we slapped a tablet there and hacked an interface on android&amp;quot;.</text></comment>