Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I am waiting for the day when mechanical keyboard enthusiasts finally put kailh hot swap sockets into a car's controls. Then we can have debates about whether car controls should be tactile, linear, or clicky. GMK keycaps for German cars. Japanese cars with Topre switches. Anime dye-sub keycaps on ricers. QMK firmware forked and re-written in MISRA-C. It would be grand.


Some people should be chiming in to say how annoying the click sounds are to the passengers.


I wonder if RGB backlighting would increase or decrease safety.


Modern cars already have a ton of unnecessary RGB backlighting and I hate it so much. It’s really distracting at night to have trim LEDs reflect in every glass surface.


I guess the passengers can take the bus then


Which bus? The CAN bus? :)


Obviously clicky, you want to know when actuation has actually happened. Just like keyboards.


I hate clicky keyboards, because there's usually a pretty quick on-screen result from hitting the button, and you might press keys tens of thousands of times in a day. Love me some tactile.

But in a car when you might interact with controls a couple dozen times per trip? Absolutely clicky.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: